Journal of Integrative Agriculture ›› 2016, Vol. 15 ›› Issue (05): 1034-1045.DOI: 10.1016/S2095-3119(15)61199-6

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Sclerotinia sclerotiorum virulence is affected by mycelial age via reduction in oxalate biosynthesis

WANG Ji-peng1, XU You-ping2, ZANG Xian-peng1, LI Shuang-sheng1, CAI Xin-zhong1   

  1. 1 Institute of Biotechnology, College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, P.R.China
    2 Center of Analysis and Measurement, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, P.R.China
  • 收稿日期:2015-06-29 出版日期:2016-05-03 发布日期:2016-05-03
  • 通讯作者: Xin-zhong, Tel/Fax: +86-571-88982936, E-mail: xzhcai@zju.edu.cn
  • 作者简介:WANG Ji-peng, E-mail: wjpnjau@163.com
  • 基金资助:

    This work was financially supported by grants from the Special Fund for Agro-Scientific Research in the Public Interest, China (201103016), the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education, China (SRFDP) (20110101110092), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31371892), the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (NCET-08-0485) and the Program for New Century 151 Talents of Zhejiang Province, China.

Sclerotinia sclerotiorum virulence is affected by mycelial age via reduction in oxalate biosynthesis

WANG Ji-peng1, XU You-ping2, ZANG Xian-peng1, LI Shuang-sheng1, CAI Xin-zhong1   

  1. 1 Institute of Biotechnology, College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, P.R.China
    2 Center of Analysis and Measurement, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, P.R.China
  • Received:2015-06-29 Online:2016-05-03 Published:2016-05-03
  • Contact: Xin-zhong, Tel/Fax: +86-571-88982936, E-mail: xzhcai@zju.edu.cn
  • About author:WANG Ji-peng, E-mail: wjpnjau@163.com
  • Supported by:

    This work was financially supported by grants from the Special Fund for Agro-Scientific Research in the Public Interest, China (201103016), the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education, China (SRFDP) (20110101110092), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31371892), the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (NCET-08-0485) and the Program for New Century 151 Talents of Zhejiang Province, China.

Abstract: Sclerotinia sclerotiorum is one of the most devastating necrotrophic phytopathogens.  Virulence of the hyphae of this fungus at different ages varies significantly.  Molecular mechanisms underlying this functional distinction are largely unknown.  In this study, we confirmed the effect of mycelial culture time/age on virulence in two host plants and elucidated its molecular and morphological basis.  The virulence of the S. sclerotiorum mycelia in plants dramatically decreases along with the increase of the mycelial age.  Three-day-old mycelia lost the virulence in plants.  Comparative proteomics analyses revealed that metabolism pathways were comprehensively reprogrammed to suppress the oxalic acid (OA) accumulation in old mycelia.  The oxaloacetate acetylhydrolase (OAH), which catalyzes OA biosynthesis, was identified in the S. sclerotiorum genome.  Both gene expression and protein accumulation of OAH in old mycelia were strongly repressed.  Moreover, in planta OA accumulation was strikingly reduced in old mycelia-inoculated plants compared with young vegetative mycelia-inoculated plants.  Furthermore, supply with 10 mmol L–1 OA enabled the old mycelia infect the host plants, demonstrating that loss of virulence of old mycelia is mainly caused by being unable to accumulate OA.  Additionally, aerial mycelia started to develop from 0.5-day-old vegetative mycelia and dominated over 1-day-old mycelia grown on potato dextrose agar plates.  They were much smaller in hypha diameter and grew significantly slower than young vegetative mycelia when subcultured, which did not maintain to progenies.  Collectively, our results reveal that S. sclerotiorum aerial hyphae-dominant old mycelia fail to accumulate OA and thereby lose the virulence in host plants.

Key words: Sclerotinia sclerotiorum , mycelial age ,  oxalic acid ,  virulence ,  proteomics