Not in your usual Top 10: protists that infect plants and algae

Arne Schwelm; Julia Badstöber; Simon Bulman; Nicolas Desoignies; Mohammad Etemadi; Richard E Falloon; Claire M M Gachon; Anne Legreve; Julius Lukeš; Ueli Merz; Anna Nenarokova; Martina Strittmatter; Brooke K Sullivan; Sigrid Neuhauser

doi:10.1111/mpp.12580

Not in your usual Top 10: protists that infect plants and algae

Mol Plant Pathol. 2018 Apr;19(4):1029-1044. doi: 10.1111/mpp.12580. Epub 2017 Oct 11.

Authors

Arne Schwelm^{1

2}, Julia Badstöber², Simon Bulman³, Nicolas Desoignies⁴, Mohammad Etemadi², Richard E Falloon³, Claire M M Gachon⁵, Anne Legreve⁶, Julius Lukeš^{7

8

9}, Ueli Merz¹⁰, Anna Nenarokova^{7

8}, Martina Strittmatter⁵, Brooke K Sullivan^{11

12}, Sigrid Neuhauser²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Plant Biology, Uppsala BioCentre, Linnean Centre for Plant Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala SE-75007, Sweden.
² Institute of Microbiology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck 6020, Austria.
³ New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Ltd, Lincoln 7608, New Zealand.
⁴ Applied Plant Ecophysiology, Haute Ecole Provinciale de Hainaut-Condorcet, Ath 7800, Belgium.
⁵ The Scottish Association for Marine Science, Scottish Marine Institute, Oban PA37 1QA, UK.
⁶ Université catholique de Louvain, Earth and Life Institute, Louvain-la-Neuve 1348, Belgium.
⁷ Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, 37005 České Budějovice (Budweis), Czech Republic.
⁸ Faculty of Sciences, University of South Bohemia, 37005 České Budějovice (Budweis), Czech Republic.
⁹ Integrated Microbial Biodiversity, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1Z8, Canada.
¹⁰ Plant Pathology, Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich 8092, Switzerland.
¹¹ School of Biosciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic. 3010, Australia.
¹² School of Biosciences, Victorian Marine Science Consortium, Queenscliff, Vic. 3225, Australia.

Abstract

Fungi, nematodes and oomycetes belong to the most prominent eukaryotic plant pathogenic organisms. Unicellular organisms from other eukaryotic lineages, commonly addressed as protists, also infect plants. This review provides an introduction to plant pathogenic protists, including algae infecting oomycetes, and their current state of research.

Keywords: algae; phytomonas; phytomyxae; plant pathogens; plasmodiophorids; protist; stramenopiles.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

MeSH terms

Oomycetes / pathogenicity
Plants / microbiology*
Plasmodiophorida / pathogenicity

Grants and funding

Y 801/FWF_/Austrian Science Fund FWF/Austria