Mycobiology.  2017 Dec;45(4):401-408. 10.5941/MYCO.2017.45.4.401.

Development of a High-Resolution Multi-Locus Microsatellite Typing Method for Colletotrichum gloeosporioides

Affiliations
  • 1National Fungal Culture Collection of India (NFCCI), Biodiversity and Palaeobiology Group, MACS-Agharkar Research Institute, Pune 411004, India. abhiudaan2003@gmail.com
  • 2Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune 411007, India.
  • 3Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Canisius-Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen 6532 SZ, The Netherlands.

Abstract

Colletotrichum gloeosporioides is an economically important fungal pathogen causing substantial yield losses indifferent host plants. To understand the genetic diversity and molecular epidemiology of this fungus, we have developed a novel, high-resolution multi-locus microsatellite typing (MLMT) method. Bioinformatic analysis of C. gloeosporioides unannotated genome sequence yielded eight potential microsatellite loci, of which five, CG1 (GT)(n), CG2 (GT1)(n), CG3 (TC)(n), CG4 (CT)(n), and CG5 (CT1)(n) were selected for further study based on their universal amplification potential, reproducibility, and repeat number polymorphism. The selected microsatellites were used to analyze 31 strains of C. gloeosporioides isolated from 20 different host plants from India. All microsatellite loci were found to be polymorphic, and the approximate fragment sizes of microsatellite loci CG1, CG2, CG3, CG4, and CG5 were in ranges of 213-241, 197-227, 231-265, 209-275, and 132-188, respectively. Among the 31 isolates, 55 different genotypes were identified. The Simpson's index of diversity (D) values for the individual locus ranged from 0.79 to 0.92, with the D value of all combined five microsatellite loci being 0.99. Microsatellite data analysis revealed that isolates from Ocimum sanctum, Capsicum annuum (chili pepper), and Mangifera indica (mango) formed distinct clusters, therefore exhibited some level of correlation between certain genotypes and host. The developed MLMT method would be a powerful tool for studying the genetic diversity and any possible genotype-host correlation in C. gloeosporioides.

Keyword

Colletotrichum gloeosporioides; Genotyping; Host-specificity; Microsatellites

MeSH Terms

Capsicum
Colletotrichum*
Computational Biology
Fungi
Genetic Variation
Genome
Genotype
India
Mangifera
Methods*
Microsatellite Repeats*
Molecular Epidemiology
Ocimum
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