Viruses infecting the plant pathogenic fungus Rhizoctonia solani
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Author(s)
Abdoulaye, Assane Hamidou
Foda, Mohamed Frahat
Kotta-Loizou, Ioly
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
The cosmopolitan fungus Rhizoctonia solani has a wide host range and is the causal agent of numerous crop diseases, leading to significant economic losses. To date, no cultivars showing complete resistance to R. solani have been identified and it is imperative to develop a strategy to control the spread of the disease. Fungal viruses, or mycoviruses, are widespread in all major groups of fungi and next-generation sequencing (NGS) is currently the most efficient approach for their identification. An increasing number of novel mycoviruses are being reported, including double-stranded (ds) RNA, circular single-stranded (ss) DNA, negative sense (−)ssRNA, and positive sense (+)ssRNA viruses. The majority of mycovirus infections are cryptic with no obvious symptoms on the hosts; however, some mycoviruses may alter fungal host pathogenicity resulting in hypervirulence or hypovirulence and are therefore potential biological control agents that could be used to combat fungal diseases. R. solani harbors a range of dsRNA and ssRNA viruses, either belonging to established families, such as Endornaviridae, Tymoviridae, Partitiviridae, and Narnaviridae, or unclassified, and some of them have been associated with hypervirulence or hypovirulence. Here we discuss in depth the molecular features of known viruses infecting R. solani and their potential as biological control agents.
Date Issued
2019-12
Date Acceptance
2019-11-26
Citation
Viruses, 2019, 11 (12)
ISSN
1999-4915
Publisher
MDPI AG
Journal / Book Title
Viruses
Volume
11
Issue
12
Copyright Statement
© 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Subjects
(-)ssRNA
(+)
BIOLOGICAL-CONTROL
COMPLETE GENOME SEQUENCE
COMPLETE NUCLEOTIDE-SEQUENCE
CONFERS HYPOVIRULENCE
DOUBLE-STRANDED-RNA
dsRNA
DSRNA MYCOVIRUS
ENDORNAVIRUS
hyper
hypovirulence
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION
mycovirus
PROPOSED FAMILY
Rhizoctonia solani
Science & Technology
TAXONOMY
Virology
virus-host interactions
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
1113
Date Publish Online
2019-11-30