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Comparative genomics of Knoxdaviesia species in the Core Cape Subregion by Janneke Aylward Dissertation presented for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Science at Stellenbosch University Supervisor: Prof. Léanne L. Dreyer Co-supervisors: Dr. Francois Roets Prof. Emma T. Steenkamp Prof. Brenda D. Wingfield Prof. Michael J. Wingfield March 2017 Stellenbosch University https://scholar.sun.ac.za Declaration By submitting this dissertation electronically, I declare that the entirety of the work contained therein is my own, original work, that I am the sole author thereof (save to the extent explicitly otherwise stated), that reproduction and publication thereof by Stellenbosch University will not infringe any third party rights and that I have not previously in its entirety or in part submitted it for obtaining any qualification. Janneke Aylward Date: March 2017 Copyright © 2017 Stellenbosch University All rights reserved i Stellenbosch University https://scholar.sun.ac.za ABSTRACT Knoxdaviesia capensis and K. proteae are saprotrophic fungi that inhabit the seed cones (infructescences) of Protea plants in the Core Cape Subregion (CCR) of South Africa. Arthropods, implicated in the pollination of Protea species, disperse these native fungi from infructescences to young flower heads (inflorescences). Knoxdaviesia proteae is a specialist restricted to one Protea species, while the generalist K. capensis occupies a range of Protea species. Within young flower heads, Knoxdaviesia species grow vegetatively, but switch to sexual reproduction once flower heads mature into enclosed infructescences. Nectar becomes depleted and infructescences are colonised by numerous other organisms, including the arthropod vectors of the fungi. The aim of this dissertation was to study the ecology of K. capensis and K. proteae by making use of their genome sequences. Knoxdaviesia belongs to the family Gondwanamycetaceae, for which no genomes were available at the start of this study. Using Illumina technology, we determined the genome sequences of both CCR Knoxdaviesia species and applied them to investigate reproduction, substrate use and tolerance to competition. Population genetic studies on K. capensis and K. proteae have revealed massive diversity, suggesting an outcrossing reproductive strategy. To determine the genetic basis for this diversity, we used the genomes to identify and characterise their mating type (MAT) loci. Each species contained only a single MAT idiomorph per isolate, indicating that they require an individual of the opposite mating type for sexual reproduction. The MAT loci of the two Knoxdaviesia species were almost identical, reflecting their phylogenetic relatedness. The features of the Knoxdaviesia MAT1-2-7 gene also suggested a historic recombination event between the MAT1-1 and MAT1-2 idiomorphs. The carbon resources that Knoxdaviesia species utilise were investigated with phenome assays and compared to the carbon usage profile of a Protea pathogen, Ceratocystis albifundus. Knoxdaviesia capensis, the generalist, utilised the widest range of substrates, whereas the pathogen utilised the least. The Knoxdaviesia species were able to grow on all monosaccharides that occur in Protea nectar. The predicted proteins in the Knoxdaviesia and C. albifundus genomes suggested that cell wall degradation is important to the nutrition of Knoxdaviesia species in infructescences, whereas the pathogen prefers plant storage ii Stellenbosch University https://scholar.sun.ac.za polysaccharides. Overall, carbon metabolism in three ecologically different, but related fungi reflected their ecological adaptations. Knoxdaviesia species appear to be effective competitors in infructescences. Few secondary metabolite biosynthesis clusters were, however, detected from the K. capensis and K. proteae genomes. This may suggest that it is the antimicrobial products of Streptomyces bacteria that rid infructescences of fungal competitors. The few secondary metabolite clusters of the Knoxdaviesia species likely produce compounds that enable them to tolerate these bacteria and arthropod and nematode predation. Proteins involved in cell defence were also detected among the predicted secreted proteins of K. capensis and K. proteae. Knoxdaviesia proteae appears to have some non-functional secondary metabolite clusters and secretes less cell defence proteins than K. capensis, suggesting that its specialisation on a single host has resulted in the loss of some functions. iii Stellenbosch University https://scholar.sun.ac.za OPSOMMING Knoxdaviesia capensis en K. proteae is saprofitiese fungi wat die saadkeëls van Protea plante in die Kern Kaapse Substreek (KKS) van Suid-Afrika bewoon. Artropodes, geïmpliseer in die bestuiwing van Protea spesies, verprei hierdie inheemse fungi van saadkeëls na jong blomkoppe. Knoxdaviesia proteae is ʼn spesialis wat beperk is tot een Protea spesie, terwyl die meer algemene K. capensis in ʼn reeks Protea spesies voorkom. Binne jong blomkoppe groei Knoxdaviesia spesies vegetatief, maar skakel om na seksuele voortplanting sodra die blomkoppe tot geslote saadknoppe ontwikkel. Nektar raak uitgeput, en saadknoppe word gekoloniseer deur verskeie ander organismes, insluitend die artropode vektore van die fungi. Die mikpunt van hierdie dissertasie was om die ekologie van K. capensis en K. proteae te bestudeer deur van genoom basisvolgordes gebruik te maak. Knoxdaviesia behoort aan die familie Gondwanamycetaceae, waarvoor geen genome beskikbaar was aan die begin van hierdie studie nie. Deur van Illumina tegnologie gebruik te maak het ons die genoom basisvolgordes van beide KKS Knoxdaviesia spesies bepaal, en hulle toegepas om die reproduksie, substraat-gebruik en toleransie teen kompetisie te ondersoek. Populasie genetiese studies op K. capensis en K. proteae het massiewe diversiteit geopenbaar, wat ʼn kruistelende reproduktiewe strategie voorstel. Om die genetiese basis vir hierdie diversiteit te bepaal het ons die genome gebruik om hul paringsmaat-tipe (MAT) lokusse te bepaal en te karakteriseer. Elke spesie het slegs een MAT idiomorf per isolaat bevat, wat aandui dat hulle ʼn individu van die teenoorgestelde paringstipe benodig vir seksuele voortplanting. Die MAT lokusse van die twee Knoxdaviesia spesies was amper identies, wat hulle filogenetiese verwantskap reflekteer. Die kenmerke van die Knoxdaviesia MAT1-2-7 geen suggereer ook ʼn historiese rekombinasie gebeurtenis tussen die MAT1-1 en MAT1-2 idiomorfe. Die koolstofbronne wat Knoxdaviesia spesies gebruik is ondersoek met fenoom toetse en vergelyk met die koolstofgebruik-profiel van ʼn Protea patogeen, Ceratocystis albifundus. Die algemene Knoxdaviesia capensis het die wydste reeks substrate gebruik, terwyl die patogeen minste gebruik het. Die Knoxdaviesia spesies kon groei op al die monosakkariede wat in Protea nektar voorkom. Die voorspelde proteïene in die Knoxdaviesia en C. albifundus genome stel voor dat selwand degradasie belangrik is vir voeding van Knoxdaviesia spesies in saadkoppe, terwyl die patogeen plant storingspolisakkariede verkies. Oor die algemeen, iv Stellenbosch University https://scholar.sun.ac.za reflekteer die koolstofmetabolisme in drie ekologies verskillend, maar verwante fungi hulle ekologiese aanpassings. Dit blyk of Knoxdaviesia effektiewe kompeteerders is in saadknoppe. Min sekondêre metaboliet biosintese groeperings is egter in die K. capensis en K. proteae genome opgespoor. Dit mag suggereer dat dit die antimikrobiese produkte van Streptomyces bakterieë is wat saadknoppe van fungus-kompeteerders ontneem. Die paar sekondêre metaboliet biosintese groeperings van die Knoxdaviesia spesies produseer waarskynlik verbindings wat hulle in staat stel om hierdie bakterieë sowel as artropode- en nematode-predasie te verdra. Proteïene betrokke by selbeskerming is ook waargeneem tussen die voorspelde gesekreteerde proteïene van K. capensis en K. proteae. Knoxdaviesia proteae blyk ook om nie-funksionele sekondêre metaboliet groeperings te hê, en sekreteer minder selbeskermingsproteïene as K. capensis, wat voorstel dat sy spesialisasie op ʼn enkele gasheer die verlies van sekere funksies tot gevolg gehad het. v Stellenbosch University https://scholar.sun.ac.za ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Like me, this dissertation is a product of grace. Were it not for those mentioned below, this document would not exist. I appreciate you all immensely. Firstly, my sincere thanks to the National Research Foundation (NRF) and the Department of Science and Technology-NRF Centre of Excellence in Tree Health Biotechnology for providing research funding and personal financial support. I am convinced that I have the best supervision team. Other students often offer their sympathies when they find out I have five supervisors, but Léanne, Francois, Emma, Brenda and Mike: thank you for showing me what professional relationships look like. Thank you for treating me like a colleague and thank you for investing time to develop me into a researcher. When I started this project, I had little experience in genomics, but Lieschen Bahlman and Quentin Santana gave support and hours of patience! Lieschen, thank you for your guidance during the couple of days I sat in your office. Quentin, thank you for everything you taught me and the technical help you were always willing to provide. On a more personal note, I have been blessed with friends and family who played a big part in my emotional stability, especially during the final few months. My husband Ernie, I love being on your team! Thank you for being
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    available online at www.studiesinmycology.org StudieS in Mycology 68: 163–191. 2011. doi:10.3114/sim.2011.68.07 Monilochaetes and allied genera of the Glomerellales, and a reconsideration of families in the Microascales M. Réblová1*, W. Gams2 and K.A. Seifert3 1Department of Taxonomy, Institute of Botany of the Academy of Sciences, CZ – 252 43 Průhonice, Czech Republic; 2Molenweg 15, 3743CK Baarn, The Netherlands; 3Biodiversity (Mycology and Botany), Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0C6, Canada *Correspondence: Martina Réblová, [email protected] Abstract: We examined the phylogenetic relationships of two species that mimic Chaetosphaeria in teleomorph and anamorph morphologies, Chaetosphaeria tulasneorum with a Cylindrotrichum anamorph and Australiasca queenslandica with a Dischloridium anamorph. Four data sets were analysed: a) the internal transcribed spacer region including ITS1, 5.8S rDNA and ITS2 (ITS), b) nc28S (ncLSU) rDNA, c) nc18S (ncSSU) rDNA, and d) a combined data set of ncLSU-ncSSU-RPB2 (ribosomal polymerase B2). The traditional placement of Ch. tulasneorum in the Microascales based on ncLSU sequences is unsupported and Australiasca does not belong to the Chaetosphaeriaceae. Both holomorph species are nested within the Glomerellales. A new genus, Reticulascus, is introduced for Ch. tulasneorum with associated Cylindrotrichum anamorph; another species of Reticulascus and its anamorph in Cylindrotrichum are described as new. The taxonomic structure of the Glomerellales is clarified and the name is validly published. As delimited here, it includes three families, the Glomerellaceae and the newly described Australiascaceae and Reticulascaceae. Based on ITS and ncLSU rDNA sequence analyses, we confirm the synonymy of the anamorph generaDischloridium with Monilochaetes.
  • Characterisation of Metarhizium Majus (Hypocreales: Clavicipitaceae

    Characterisation of Metarhizium Majus (Hypocreales: Clavicipitaceae

    bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.10.07.329532; this version posted October 7, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY 4.0 International license. 1 1 Characterisation of Metarhizium majus (Hypocreales: 2 Clavicipitaceae) isolated from the Western Cape province, 3 South Africa 4 5 Letodi L. Mathulwe1, Karin Jacobs2, Antoinette P. Malan1*, Klaus Birkhofer3, Matthew F. 6 Addison1, Pia Addison1 7 8 1 Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology, Faculty of AgriSciences, Private 9 Bag X1, Matieland 7602, Stellenbosch, South Africa 10 2 Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Private Bag X1, Matieland 7602, 11 Stellenbosch, 7602, South Africa 12 3 Department of Ecology, Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus, Germany 13 14 15 *Corresponding author 16 E-mail: [email protected] (APM) 17 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.10.07.329532; this version posted October 7, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY 4.0 International license. 2 18 Abstract 19 Entomopathogenic fungi (EPF) are important soil-dwelling entomopathogens, which can be 20 used as biocontrol agents against pest insects. During a survey of the orchard soil at an organic 21 farm, the EPF were identified to species level, using both morphological and molecular 22 techniques.