to study the population structure of gibberella fujikuroi species complex, the causal agent of rice foot rot, samples were taken from different rice growing regions of guilan province in 2004. among fourty-one isolates recovered from different cultivars; three isolates did not produce microconidial chain. in order to study the sexual fertility and determine the mating type as well as mating pop...

to evaluate fertility status and mating type distribution of cryphonectria parasitica, causal agent of chestnut blight in guilan province, four sites in two main growing regions of: shaft (visrud, taleghan and babarekab), and rezvanshahr (doran) were investigated. during the study, fifty four isolates of c. parasitica were examined. c. parasitica isolates were crossed with each of the two matin...

a determination of the genetic variation of the fungus isolated from graminous weeds which is highly beneficial to know probable genetic recombination in the fungus populations was done for the first time in iran through pcr reaction. the isolates of fungus “magnaporthe grisea” from graminous weed hosts and from rice were analyzed through rapd-pcr to assay the mating type and genetic diversity....

mycosphaerella graminicola, the causal agent of septoria tritici blotch (stb), is a widespread and significant pathogen of wheat. to determine mating types, 89 isolates were collected randomly from wheat fields of khuzestan, east azerbaijan, ardebil, kermanshah and golestan provinces of iran, during 2006-7. dna was extracted based on standard protocols. multiplex pcr was conducted using two pai...

To test the functions of a mating type genes, we developed an efficient strategy to select transformants of Neurospora crassa in which resident A mating type DNA was replaced by cloned DNA from the mt a idiomorph. Cloned a idiomorphic DNA could specify all functions, including fertility, of a mating type, but only when it replaced A DNA at the mating type locus. Only the mt a-1 region of the a ...

The mating-type locus in the haploid filamentous fungus, Neurospora crassa, controls mating and sexual development. The fusion of reproductive structures of opposite mating type, A and a, is required to initiate sexual reproduction. However, the fusion of hyphae of opposite mating type during vegetative growth results in growth inhibition and cell death, a process that is mediated by the tol lo...

Mating-type genes in fungi encode regulators of mating and sexual development. Heterothallic ascomycete species require different sets of mating-type genes to control nonself-recognition and mating of compatible partners of different mating types. Homothallic (self-fertile) species also carry mating-type genes in their genome that are essential for sexual development. To analyze the molecular b...

Homokaryons from the homothallic ascomycte Sordaria macrospora are able to enter the sexual pathway and to form fertile fruiting bodies. To analyze the molecular basis of homothallism and to elucidate the role of mating-products during fruiting body development, we cloned and sequenced the entire S. macrospora mating-type locus. Comparison of the Sordaria mating-type locus with mating-type idio...