Viruses of endophytic and pathogenic forest fungi

Sammanfattning

Mycoviruses, just as the fungal endophytes they infect, are ubiquitous biological entities on Earth. Mycoviruses constitute a diverse group of viruses, and metagenomic approaches have-through recent discoveries of been mycoviruses-only recently began to provide evidence of this astonishing diversity. The current review presents (1) various mycoviruses which infect fungal endophytes and forest pathogens, (2) their presumed origins and interactions with fungi, plants and the environment, (3) high-throughput sequencing techniques that can be used to explore the horizontal gene transfer of mycoviruses, and (4) how the hypo- and hypervirulence induced by mycoviral infection is relevant to the biological control of pathogenic fungi.

Nyckelord

Mycovirus; Fungal endophytes; High-throughput sequencing; Fungi; Mycobiome; Endophyte virus

Publicerad i

Virus Genes
2020, volym: 56, nummer: 4, sidor: 407-416
Utgivare: SPRINGER

SLU författare

• Siddique, Abu Bakar

  • Umeå Universitet

UKÄ forskningsämne

Mikrobiologi

Publikationens identifierare

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11262-020-01763-3

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