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Exobasidium Darwinii, a New Hawaiian Species Infecting Endemic Vaccinium Reticulatum in Haleakala National Park View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Springer - Publisher Connector Mycol Progress (2012) 11:361–371 DOI 10.1007/s11557-011-0751-4 ORIGINAL ARTICLE Exobasidium darwinii, a new Hawaiian species infecting endemic Vaccinium reticulatum in Haleakala National Park Marcin Piątek & Matthias Lutz & Patti Welton Received: 4 November 2010 /Revised: 26 February 2011 /Accepted: 2 March 2011 /Published online: 8 April 2011 # The Author(s) 2011. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com Abstract Hawaii is one of the most isolated archipelagos Exobasidium darwinii is proposed for this novel taxon. This in the world, situated about 4,000 km from the nearest species is characterized among others by the production of continent, and never connected with continental land peculiar witches’ brooms with bright red leaves on the masses. Two Hawaiian endemic blueberries, Vaccinium infected branches of Vaccinium reticulatum. Relevant char- calycinum and V. reticulatum, are infected by Exobasidium acters of Exobasidium darwinii are described and illustrated, species previously recognized as Exobasidium vaccinii. additionally phylogenetic relationships of the new species are However, because of the high host-specificity of Exobasidium, discussed. it seems unlikely that the species infecting Vaccinium calycinum and V. reticulatum belongs to Exobasidium Keywords Exobasidiomycetes . ITS . LSU . vaccinii, which in the current circumscription is restricted to Molecular phylogeny. Ustilaginomycotina Vaccinium vitis-idaea. We collected a fresh specimen of Exobasidium on Vaccinium reticulatum in Haleakala National Park, and analysed it by a combined morphological and Introduction molecular approach. The morphological and phylogenetic analyses (based on the LSU and the concatenated ITS+LSU Exobasidium Woronin is the largest genus within the sequence data) showed that Exobasidium on Vaccinium Exobasidiales with 178 epithets included in the Index reticulatum belongs to an undescribed species, distinct from Fungorum (http://www.indexfungorum.org/Names/Names. Exobasidium vaccinii and any other species. The name asp). Some of these names are invalidly published, others are synonymous or represent species of other genera (e.g., Taxonomical novelty: Exobasidium darwinii M. Piątek & M. Lutz Arcticomyces Savile, Exobasidiellum Donk, Kordyana Racib., Laurobasidium Jülich, Muribasidiospora Kamat & M. Piątek (*) Department of Mycology, W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Rajendren). Yet the genus is poorly known and, except for Polish Academy of Sciences, Europe, there is no comprehensive study of Exobasidium. Lubicz 46, In the past, Exobasidium species were described based on PL-31-512 Kraków, Poland supposed host specificity, but this concept was later e-mail: [email protected] abandoned by Burt (1915) and Savile (1959), who lumped M. Lutz together many species, especially within Exobasidium Lehrstuhl Organismische Botanik, vaccinii (Fuckel) Woronin and Exobasidium vaccinii- Institut für Evolution und Ökologie, Universität Tübingen, uliginosi Boud. The high level of host specialization was Auf der Morgenstelle 1, 72076 Tübingen, Germany again postulated for European Exobasidium species by e-mail: [email protected] Nannfeldt (1981) on the basis of a detailed analysis of morphological characters correlated with host plant and P. Welton physiological data (the latter elaborated by Sundström Haleakala National Park, National Park Service, P.O. Box 369, Makawao, HI 96768, USA 1964). His ideas were basically supported by molecular e-mail: [email protected] analyses of Blanz and Oberwinkler (1983), Blanz and 362 Mycol Progress (2012) 11:361–371 Döring (1995) and Begerow et al. (2002), although in this Morphological analyses latter study support for most branches was low and obtained resolution was not fully satisfactorily for conclusions about The macroscopic symptoms of host infection and micro- evolutionary relationships within both Exobasidium and the scopic features of Exobasidium on Vaccinium reticulatum Exobasidiales. were studied using dried herbarium material. The terminology Located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, Hawaii is used in the species description and in the text follows one of the most isolated archipelagos in the world. The Nannfeldt (1981). Morphological observations and measure- islands are situated about 4,000 km from the nearest ments of basidia, basidiospores and conidia were made by continent and have never been connected with continental standard light and phase contrast microscopy (LM) of the land masses. The indigenous flowering plants of Hawaii material mounted in 3% KOH. A Nikon Eclipse 80i light include 1,029 species, of which ca. 89% are endemic to microscope was used for LM studies. Thirty basidiospores the islands (Sakai et al. 2002) likely harbouring many and conidia were measured from the studied collection, undescribed pathogenic fungi that are usually strictly using NIS-Elements BR 3.0 imaging software. LM micro- correlated with host plants. Two Hawaiian endemic blue- graphs were taken with a Nikon DS-Fi1 camera. The berries, Vaccinium calycinum Sm. and V. reticulatum Sm. observations of basidia were supplemented by scanning (incl. V. peleanum Skottsb.), were reported as hosts for electron microscopy (SEM). For this purpose, a fragment of Exobasidium species producing peculiar witches’ brooms infected leaf was glued to the carbon tab and fixed to an with bright red leaves on infected branches (Gardner aluminium stub with double-sided transparent tape. The 1985). Although the causal agent was first considered as a sample was sputter-coated with carbon using a Cressington mycoplasma-like organism, it soon became evident that it sputter-coater and viewed with a Hitachi S-4700 scanning is rather a species of Exobasidium, which has been electron microscope, at 10 kV and 9,000 nA, with a working referred to as Exobasidium vaccinii but with uncertainty distance of ca. 12 mm. SEM micrographs were taken in the whether it is native or alien on Hawaiian blueberries Laboratory of Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy (Gardner 1985). However, in the light of the high and Microanalysis at the Institute of Geological Sciences of specificity of Exobasidium, usually to the level of host the Jagiellonian University, Kraków (Poland). species, rarely to a group of closely allied species (Nannfeldt 1981), it seems unlikely that the species Molecular analyses infecting Vaccinium calycinum and V. reticulatum belongs to Exobasidium vaccinii. That latter species is quite a Genomic DNA was isolated from the herbarium specimens. different fungus, producing localized, conspicuous and much For methods of isolation and crushing of fungal material, thickened concavities on leaves of Vaccinium vitis-idaea L. DNA extraction, amplification, purification of PCR products, Only occasionally it may cause deformations of all shoot-tips sequencing, and processing of the raw data, see Lutz et al. (Nannfeldt 1981), which however are never as strong as on (2004). We determined base sequences of the ITS1/2 region the Hawaiian blueberries. Therefore, we hypothesize that of the nuc-rDNA including the 5.8 S rDNA (ITS) and of the Exobasidium on Vaccinium calycinum and V. re ti cu la tu m 5´-end of the nuc-LSU rDNA including the domains D1/D2 represents in fact one (or even two) distinct species. To (LSU). The ITS was amplified using the primer pair ITS1f test this hypothesis, we collected a fresh specimen of and ITS4 (Gardes and Bruns 1993). The LSU was amplified Exobasidium on Vaccinium reticulatum in Haleakala using the primer pair NL1 and NL4 (O’Donnell 1992, 1993). National Park, and analysed it by a combined morphological For amplification of both regions, we adjusted the annealing and molecular approach. Unfortunately, the corresponding temperature to 45°C. DNA sequences prepared in the course specimen of Exobasidium on Vaccinium calycinum has not of this study were deposited in GenBank; accession numbers hitherto been re-collected. are given in Table 1, and Figs. 1 and 2. To obtain a hypothesis on the phylogenetic position of the specimen infecting Vaccinium reticulatum, we followed Materials and methods two strategies: (1) we analysed its LSU sequence together with sequences of most Exobasidium species available in The Exobasidium specimen infecting Vaccinium reticulatum GenBank, including sequences of all available species was collected in Haleakala National Park in Hawaii on 17 growing on Vaccinium L. and all available species December 2007. This specimen was used in subsequent producing witches’ brooms, respectively, and sequences of morphological and phylogenetic analyses. Information on selected representatives of other genera of Exobasidiales the specimens of Exobasidium arescens Nannf. and E. (GenBank accession numbers are given in Fig. 1), and (2) rostrupii Nannf. sequenced for the present study is given in we analysed the concatenated ITS+LSU sequences of the Table 1. specimen from Hawaii within a dataset reduced to the Mycol Progress (2012) 11:361–371 363 Table 1 List of species used in the molecular analyses with host plants, country of origin, voucher/strain information, GenBank accession numbers, and sources Species Host plant, country Voucher/strain GenBank acc. Source no. (ITS/LSU) Arcticomyces warmingii Saxifraga bryoides L., – R. Bauer 3081/––/AF487380 Begerow et al. 2002 (Rostr.) Savile Clinoconidium Phoebe neurophylla M – Sydow Fungi –/AF487383 Begerow et al.
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