• 한국응용곤충학회지
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• 제8권
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• pp.25-28
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• 1969

콩 탄저병균(G. glycines)의 침입전 부착기의 구조와 그 형성조건을 알기 위하여 몇 가지 접촉제 커바 그리스, 셀로판, 비닐 그리고 유지론 사용하여 본 시험을 착수하였다. G. glycines의 부착기형성에는 접촉제 커바 그라스를 덮어 Water Agar에 처리한 구에는 12시간만에 $67.7\% 부착기가 형성된 반면 대조구에는 전연 형성되지 않았다. 부착기 형성에 있어서 공시한 4가지 접촉제의 효과는 비닐이 가장 좋았고 다음이 새로판 커바그라스 및 유지의 순이었다. 온도 습도 시간이 콩잎상에서 G. glycines의 부착기형성에 미치는 효과는 본 병원균의 호적온도 및 온도범위와 같이 $25^{\circ}-30^{\circ}C,\;R.H.\; 75-100\%$이었다. 그리고 36시간 처리구에서 가장 많은 부착기가 형성되었으며, 온도 $35^{\circ}C$이상 습도 $75\%$이상, 및 5시간 처리구에서는 아주 적은 수의 부착기가 형성되었다.

• 한국응용곤충학회지
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• 제5_6권
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• pp.19-26
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• 1968

휴지상태에 있는 성숙한 도열병균 포자 1,000개를 관찰한 결과 각 세포에 단핵을 가지는 포자비율이 $95\%$로 단연 많았고 또 미숙회자인 1세포 1핵 포자로부터 출발하여 3세포 3핵인 성숙포자가 형성됨을 관찰할 수 있었다. 분열 중인 핵은 배열된 염색체로서 관찰할 수 있었으며, 염색체수는 n=3,4,5,6개로 나타났으나, n=5개가 가장 많았다. 핵이 발아관으로 이동하는 방법은 첫째로 휴지상태에 있던 핵이 분열하여 2핵이 되고 그 중 1핵이 발아관에 이동하고 1핵은 세포내에 머무는 것과$(43\%)$, 둘째 방법은 핵분열 없이 직접 세포내의 1핵이 발아관을 따라 이동하는 것들이 $(57\%)$ 있다. 또 부착기내의 핵을 염색하여 관찰한 결과 무핵의 부착기가 상당히 많았으나 핵질을 가진 500개의 부착기 중에 단핵이 476개로서 $95.2\%$였다(Chromosome 으로 관찰된 4부착기는 제외). 이상의 결과로서 도열병균은 전생활환을 통하여 단핵을 함유한다는 것을 인정할 수 있으며, 도열병균포자가 다세포일지라도 Homokaryon이라고 생각되므로 단포자분리균을 도열병에 관한 모든 시험에 공시하는 것은 합당하다고 할 수 있다.

• The Plant Pathology Journal
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.131-142
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• 2008

Magnaporthe oryzae, the causal agent of the rice blast disease, poses a worldwide threat to stable rice production. The large-scale functional characterization of genes controlling the pathogenicity of M. oryzae is currently under way, but little is known about heat shock protein 40 (Hsp40) function in the rice blast fungus or any other filamentous plant pathogen. We identified 25 genes encoding putative Hsp40s in the genome of M. oryzae using a bioinformatic approach, which we designated M. oryzae heat shock protein forty (MHF 1-25). To elucidate the roles of these genes, we characterized the functions of MHF16 and MHF21, which encode type ill and type n Hsp40 proteins, respectively. MHF16 and MHF21 expression was not significantly induced by heat shock, but it was down-regulated by cold shock. Knockout mutants of these genes $({\Delta}$mhf16 and ${\Delta}$mhf21) were viable, but conidiation was severely reduced. Moreover, sectoring was observed in the ${\Delta}mhf16$ mutant when it was grown on oatmeal agar medium. Conidial germination, appressorium formation, and pathogenicity in rice were not significantly affected in the mutants. The defects in conidiation and colony morphology were fully complemented by reintroduction of wild type MHF16 and MHF21 alleles, respectively. These data indicate that MHF16 and MHF21 play important roles in conidiation in the rice blast fungus.

• Journal of Ginseng Research
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• 제38권3호
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• pp.215-219
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• 2014

Background: Biological control of plant pathogens using benign or beneficial microorganisms as antagonistic agents is currently considered to be an important component of integrated pest management in agricultural crops. In this study, we evaluated the potential of Bacillus subtilis strain HK-CSM-1 as a biological control agent against Colletotrichum panacicola. Methods: The potential of B. subtilis HK-CSM-1 as a biological control agent for ginseng anthracnose was assessed. C. panacicola was inoculated to ginseng plants and the incidence and severity of disease was assessed to examine the efficacy of the bacterium as a biological control against C. panacicola. Results: Inoculation of Panax ginseng plants with B. subtilis significantly suppressed the number of disease lesions of C. panacicola and was as effective as the chemical fungicide iminoctadine tris(albesilate). The antifungal activity of B. subtilis against C. panacicola was observed on a co-culture medium. Interestingly, treatment with B. subtilis did not significantly affect the diameter of the lesions, suggesting that the mechanism of protection was through the reduction in the incidence of infection related to the initial events of the infection cycle, including penetration and infection via spore germination and appressorium formation rather than by the inhibition of invasive growth after infection. Conclusion: Our results suggest that B. subtilis HK-CSM-1 can be used as an effective and ecologically friendly biological control agent for anthracnose in P. ginseng.

• The Plant Pathology Journal
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• 제37권3호
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• pp.232-242
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• 2021

Glomerella leaf spot (GLS) is a severe infectious disease of apple whose infective area is growing gradually and thus poses a huge economic threat to the world. Different species of Colletotrichum including Colletotrichum gloeosporioides are responsible for GLS. For efficient GLS control, it is important to understand the mechanism by which the cruciferous crops and C. gloeosporioides interact. Arginine is among one of the several types of amino acids, which plays crucial role in biochemical and physiological functions of fungi. The arginine biosynthesis pathway involved in virulence among plant pathogenic fungi is poorly understood. In this study, CgCPS1 gene encoding carbamoyl phosphate synthase involved in arginine biosynthesis has been identified and inactivated experimentally. To assess the effects of CgCPS1, we knocked out CgCPS1 in C. gloeosporioides and evaluated its effects on virulence and stress tolerance. The results showed that deletion of CgCPS1 resulted in loss of pathogenicity. The ∆cgcps1 mutants showed slow growth rate, defects in appressorium formation and failed to develop lesions on apple leaves and fruits leading to loss of virulence while complementation strain (CgCPS1-C) fully restored its pathogenicity. Furthermore, mutant strains showed extreme sensitivity to high osmotic stress displaying that CgCPS1 plays a vital role in stress response. These findings suggest that CgCPS1 is major factor that mediates pathogenicity in C. gloeosporioides by encoding carbamoyl phosphate that is involved in arginine biosynthesis and conferring virulence in C. gloeosporioides.

• 한국균학회소식:학술대회논문집
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• 한국균학회 2014년도 추계학술대회 및 정기총회
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• pp.11-11
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• 2014

Fungal pathogens have huge impact on health and economic wellbeing of human by causing life-threatening mycoses in immune-compromised patients or by destroying crop plants. A key determinant of fungal pathogenesis is their ability to undergo developmental change in response to host or environmental factors. Genetic pathways that regulate such morphological transitions and adaptation are therefore extensively studied during the last few decades. Given that epigenetic as well as genetic components play pivotal roles in development of plants and mammals, contribution of microbial epigenetic counterparts to this morphogenetic process is intriguing yet nearly unappreciated question to date. To bridge this gap in our knowledge, we set out to investigate histone modifications among epigenetic mechanisms that possibly regulate fungal adaptation and processes involved in pathogenesis of a model plant pathogenic fungus, Magnaporthe oryzae. M. oryzae is a causal agent of rice blast disease, which destroys 10 to 30% of the rice crop annually. Since the rice is the staple food for more than half of human population, the disease is a major threat to global food security. In addition to the socioeconomic impact of the disease it causes, the fungus is genetically tractable and can undergo well-defined morphological transitions including asexual spore production and appressorium (a specialized infection structure) formation in vitro, making it a model to study fungal development and pathogenicity. For functional and comparative analysis of histone modifications, a web-based database (dbHiMo) was constructed to archive and analyze histone modifying enzymes from eukaryotic species whose genome sequences are available. Histone modifying enzymes were identified applying a search pipeline built upon profile hidden Markov model (HMM) to proteomes. The database incorporates 22,169 histone-modifying enzymes identified from 342 species including 214 fungal, 33 plants, and 77 metazoan species. The dbHiMo provides users with web-based personalized data browsing and analysis tools, supporting comparative and evolutionary genomics. Based on the database entries, functional analysis of genes encoding histone acetyltransferases and histone demethylases is under way. Here I provide examples of such analyses that show how histone acetylation and methylation is implicated in regulating important aspects of fungal pathogenesis. Current analysis of histone modifying enzymes will be followed by ChIP-Seq and RNA-seq experiments to pinpoint the genes that are controlled by particular histone modifications. We anticipate that our work will provide not only the significant advances in our understanding of epigenetic mechanisms operating in microbial eukaryotes but also basis to expand our perspective on regulation of development in fungal pathogens.

• The Plant Pathology Journal
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.313-320
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• 2010

Genetic instability of the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae has been suggested as a major factor underlying the rapid breakdown of host resistance in the field. However, little information is available on the mechanism of genetic instability. In this study, we assessed the stability of repetitive DNA elements and several key phenotypic traits important for pathogenesis after serially transferring two isolates though rice plants and an artificial medium. Using isolate 70-15, we obtained a total of 176 single-spore isolates from 10 successive rounds of culturing on artificial medium. Another 20 isolates were obtained from germ tubes formed at the basal and apical cells of 10 three-celled conidia. Additionally, 60 isolates were obtained from isolate KJ201 after serial transfers through rice plants and an artificial medium. No apparent differences in phenotypes, including mycelial growth, conidial morphologies, conidiation, conidial germination, appressorium formation, and virulence, or in DNA fingerprints using MGR586, MAGGY, Pot2, LINE, MG-SINE and PWL2 as probes were observed among isolates from the same parent isolate. Southern hybridization and sequence analysis of two avirulence genes, AVR-Pita1 and AVR-Pikm, showed that both genes were also maintained stably during 10 successive generations on medium and plants. However, one reversible loss of restriction fragments was found in the telomere-linked helicase gene (TLH1) family, suggesting some telomere regions may be more unstable than the rest of the genome. Taken together, our results suggest that phenotype and genotype of M. oryzae isolates do not noticeably change, at least up to 10 successive generations on a cultural medium and in host plants.

• 농업생명과학연구
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• 제46권3호
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• pp.37-45
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• 2012

고추에 큰 피해를 일으키는 탄저병에 대한 강한 길항력이 있는 세균을 선발하기 위해 선행연구에서 식물뿌리 시료로부터 분리하여 보관중인 세균들을 대상으로 검정에 사용하였다. 총 457균주로부터 IA70-5균주를 최종 선발하였고, 16S rDNA 염기서열 분석을 통해 Streptomyces padanus로 동정하였다. S. padanus IA70-5는 색소를 분비하지 않고 운동성이 없으며 전형적인 Streptomyces속에 속하는 세균들처럼 나선형의 형태를 이루고 있었다. S. padanus IA70-5 균주는 in vitro에서 Colletotrichum acutaum의 균사생장, 포자발아, 그리고 부착기 형성을 효과적으로 억제하였다. 실내 고추 과실에 대하여 병원균 접종 전 IA70-5 배양액 처리 시 약 90%의 탄저병 억제효과를 나타내었다. 본 연구결과를 통하여 길항방선균 S. padanus IA70-5는 고추 탄저병을 억제하는 효과가 있음을 확인하였다.

• 한국균학회지
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.13-19
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• 1977

수도(水稻) 도열병(稻熱病)에 대(對)한 기주(寄主)의 침입과정(侵入過程)과 그에 따른 환경조건(環境條件) 및 품종저항성(品種抵抗性) 기작(機作)을 병태해부학적(病態解剖學的) 면(面)에서 구명(究明)코저 저항성품종(抵抗性品種) 통일(統一)과 이병성품종(罹病性品種) 일본도(日本稻) 농림육호(農林六號)와 진흥(振興)을 공시(供試)하여 본시험(本試驗)을 1973년(年)부터 1974년(年)까지 2개년간(個年間)에 수행(遂行)하였다. 1. 도열병균(稻熱病菌)의 침입전(侵入前) 구조관찰(構造觀察)을 위(爲)하여 Whole leaf clearing 법(法)에 따랐으며 부착기형성(附着器形成)에는 호조(好條) 건하(件下)에서 4시간(時間)이면 그 형성(形成)이 시작(始作)되며 24시간(時間)에는 최고(最高)에 달(達)하였다. 또 부착기(附着器) 형성(形成)에 관여(關與)하는 접촉제(接觸劑)의 효과(效果)는 뚜렷하였고 공시(供試) 접촉제중(接觸劑中) 유지(油紙), 세로판, 비닐 및 카바그라스의 순(順)으로 접촉효과(接觸效果)가 좋았다. 2. 부착기(附着器) 형성(形成) 호적온도범위(好適溫度範圍)는 $24{\sim}28^{\circ}C$이였고 $26^{\circ}C$에서 최적온도(最適溫度)로 보였으며 호적수소(好適水素)이온 농도범위(濃度範圍)는 $4.8{\sim}8.0$이고 최적수준(最適水準)은 6.8이었다. 3. 저항성(抵抗性)인 통일계통(統一系統)과 이병성품종(罹病性品種)인 농림육호(農林六號)와 진흥(振興)의 잎상(上)에서 부착기(附着器) 형성(形成)에는 별차이(別差異)없었으나 엽초검정법에 의(依)한 침입율(侵入率)과 불균신전도(不均伸展度)의 차이(差異)는 뚜렷하였다. 즉(卽) 통일(統一)은 침입율(侵入率) $10.5{\sim}25.5%$ 균사신전도(菌絲伸展度) $1.6{\sim}2.7$인데 반(反)하여 농림육호(農林六號)나 진흥(振興)은 침입율(侵入率) $36.3{\sim}16.5%$ 균사신전도(菌絲伸展度) $6.6{\sim}3.4$의 범위(範圍)에 있었다. 이를 경시적(經時的)인 면(面)에서 보아도 같은 경향(傾向)이었다. 4. 피침입(被侵入) 세포(細胞)의 변질율(變質率)은 통일계통(統一系統)이 높고 이병성품종(罹病性品種)이 높았는데 이는 초과민성(超過敏性) 반응(反應)을 뒷받침하고 있다. 5. Akai 일파(一派)가 주장(主張)하는 바와 같이 통일품종(統一品種)은 기계적(機械的) 저항성(抵抗性)이 높은데 즉(卽) 세포벽(細胞壁)이 두터움, 높은 규화도(硅化度)와 항균성(抗菌性) 물질(物質)의 생성(生成)에 의(依)한다고 분석(分析)되나 앞으로 생화학적(生化學的)인 면(面)에서 연구(硏究)를 계속(繼續)하여야 할 것이다.