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The raw intensity (RI) graph of overall gene expression profiles from microarray analysis. I (A) and I (B) represent the intensity data from channel A (Cy3) and channel B (Cy5), respectively. The colored spots represent transcript levels in mycelium challenged with hemolymph (red); cuticle (blue); root exudates (green) as compared with transcript levels in SDB.
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Like many other fungal pathogens Metarhizium anisopliae is a facultative saprophyte with both soil-dwelling and insect pathogenic life-stages. In addition, as M. anisopliae traverses the cuticle and enters the hemolymph it must adapt to several different host environments. In this study, we used expressed sequence tags and cDNA microarray analyses...
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... log 10 ðIðAÞIðBÞÞ, provided an over- view of these variations in transcriptional regulation (Fig. 2). Induction by cuticle or hemolymph resulted in much higher levels of expression than did growth in root exudate over the examined time period. The overall pat- tern of gene expression in the root exudate more closely resembled that in SDB, and most variation was due to the downregulation of genes in the exudate as compared to SDB ...
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... by cuticle or hemolymph resulted in much higher levels of expression than did growth in root exudate over the examined time period. The overall pat- tern of gene expression in the root exudate more closely resembled that in SDB, and most variation was due to the downregulation of genes in the exudate as compared to SDB (Figs. 2 and 3). The similarities between expres- sion patterns in hemolymph and cuticle were confirmed by bootstrap clustering analysis which revealed that expression patterns in the root exudate medium diverged first while expression patterns in the cuticle and hemo- lymph media clustered together (e.g., Fig. 3). ...
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... Similar interkingdom interactions have likely driven the evolution of other plant-associated soil fungi, which have acquired the ability to infect and kill insects, giving rise to new lineages of endophytic insect pathogens characterized by multifunctional lifestyles (73). In this context, the entomopathogenic Metarhizium is an excellent example of a fungus with genotypic plasticity allowing a multifunctional lifestyle, ranging from insect pathogen to plant colonizer or saprotroph depending upon exposure to different environmental conditions (74)(75)(76). ...
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... For example, Metarhizium is a soil-inhabiting insect-pathogenic fungus worldwide and is currently used as a biocontrol agent against crop pests (Sasan & Bidochka, 2012). Other fungi known as insect pathogens include Acremonium, Beauveria, Cladosporium, Clonostachys, and Isaria (Wang et al., 2005). ...
... The rhizosphere is a highly competitive environment in which microbes exhibit different strategies for survival. Entomopathogenic fungi (EPF) are commonly found in the rhizosphere, using root exudates as a source of nutrition but switching to insects when the opportunity arises [1][2][3][4][5]. EPF form symbiotic relationships with plants, leading to improved plant growth and productivity [1,6]. ...
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... There is however little information about this phenomenon and how EPF stability changes when cultured on artificial media, but Brownbridge et al. (2001) believed the attenuation of virulence may be due to random mutation or caused by subculture conditions. Wang et al. (2005b) and Wang and St Leger (2005) studies on M. anisopliae returned this to the pathogenicity-related genes, which are upregulated differently when the fungus grows on different artificial media or media containing insect hemolymph. ...
Background
Metarhizium species are considered one of the most outstanding powerful biological control agents that have been commercialized as biopesticides against various agricultural pests. Fungal stability with successive in vitro cultivation is a desirable trait for a large-scale production of fungal biopesticide.
Main body
The new Egyptian strain Metarhizium anisopliae AUMC 3262 exhibited auspicious results when compared to Metarhizium brunneum ARSEF 4556 and M. brunneum V275 based on the variations of fungal characteristics, and essential quality control parameters (radial growth rate, conidial yield, viability, and virulence) after repeated in vitro subculturing. Changes in morphological characteristics were noted at both AUMC 3262 and ARSEF 4556. Following the 5th subculture, decreased conidial yield was noted, though radial growth remained stable, confirming that there is a non-positive correlation between conidial yield and radial growth rate for these species. In contrast, V275 showed a high morphological stability, conidial yield, and radial growth rate after repeated subculture. The three tested strains manifested high viability up to 100% and displayed the same pattern of Pr1 production. A slight variation was recorded in the median lethal time (LT 50 ) values against the great wax moth, Galleria mellonella (L.), larvae between different subcultures of the tested Metarhizium strains.
Conclusion
The new Egyptian strain AUMC 3262 showed a high stability with a slight difference in some parameters after the successive subculture compared to both ARSEF4556 and V275.
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... The large secretomes of insect pathogens probably reflect the many microhabitats they must adapt to in insecta, including the cuticle and the haemolymph, as well as additional environmental habitats in the soil and with plants. These complex lifestyles are reflected in transcriptional reprogramming involving hundreds of differentially expressed genes as Metarhizium strains rapidly adapt to host cuticles, haemolymph or root exudate [61,62]. The ability to recognize appropriate hosts, and penetrate their cuticle, are among the necessary steps for the transition from either saprophyte or root colonizer to pathogen. ...
The genus Metarhizium and Pochonia chlamydosporia comprise a monophyletic clade of highly abundant globally distributed fungi that can transition between long-term beneficial associations with plants to transitory pathogenic associations with frequently encountered protozoans, nematodes or insects. Some very common ‘specialist generalist’ species are adapted to particular soil and plant ecologies, but can overpower a wide spectrum of insects with numerous enzymes and toxins that result from extensive gene duplications made possible by loss of meiosis and associated genome defence mechanisms. These species use parasexuality instead of sex to combine beneficial mutations from separate clonal individuals into one genome (Vicar of Bray dynamics). More weakly endophytic species which kill a narrow range of insects retain sexuality to facilitate host–pathogen coevolution (Red Queen dynamics). Metarhizium species can fit into numerous environments because they are very flexible at the genetic, physiological and ecological levels, providing tractable models to address how new mechanisms for econutritional heterogeneity, host switching and virulence are acquired and relate to diverse sexual life histories and speciation. Many new molecules and functions have been discovered that underpin Metarhizium associations, and have furthered our understanding of the crucial ecology of these fungi in multiple habitats.
... Rather, this genus exhibits extraordinary transcriptional plasticity, modulating the transcriptome to allow for physiological adaptation to environments with diverse and dynamic exploitable nutrient sources, including decaying organic matter, plants, and soil insects. Expressed sequence tag and cDNA microarray experiments have demonstrated this phenomenon of adaptive transcriptional control, with Metarhizium exhibiting largescale changes in gene expression patterns when grown in insect cuticle, hemolymph, and plant root exudate (a model for growth in the rhizosphere) (Wang et al. 2005). ...
The genus Metarhizium is comprised of a diverse group of common soil fungi that exhibit multifunctional lifestyles with varying degrees of saprotrophic, endophytic, and insect pathogenic modes of nutrient acquisition. The transcriptome of these species is modulated to reflect immediate needs of the fungus and availability of resources—a form of transcriptional plasticity that allows for physiological adaptation to environments with diverse and dynamic exploitable nutrient sources. In this review, we discuss the endophytic, insect pathogenic lifestyles of Metarhizium spp., including their symbiotic interface, origins, and evolution, and agricultural applications. Isotope labeling experiments have demonstrated that a mutually beneficial exchange of limiting nutrients occurs between the fungus and its host plant, with nitrogen derived via insect pathogenesis being translocated from Metarhizium to host plants in exchange for fixed carbon in the form of photosynthate. Thus, the endophytic and entomopathogenic abilities of Metarhizium spp. are not exclusive of one another, but rather are interdependent and reciprocal in nature. Although endophytic, insect pathogenic fungi (EIPF) could certainly have evolved from insect pathogenic fungi, phylogenomic evidence indicates that this genus is more closely related to plant-associated fungi than animal pathogens, suggesting that Metarhizium evolved from a lineage of plant symbionts, which subsequently acquired genes for insect pathogenesis. Entomopathogenicity may have been an adaptive trait, allowing for procurement of insect-derived nitrogen that could be translocated to host plants and bartered for fixed carbon, thereby improving the stability of fungal-plant symbioses. Given their ability to simultaneously parasitize soil insects, including a number of pests of agriculturally important crops, as well as promote plant health, growth, and productivity, Metarhizium spp. are considered promising alternatives to the chemical pesticides and fertilizers that have wreaked havoc on the health and integrity of ecosystems.
Key points
• Metarhizium is a fungus that is an insect pathogen as well as a plant symbiont.
• The genus Metarhizium has specialist and generalist insect pathogens.
• Metarhizium is phylogenetically most closely related to plant endophytes.
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... The integument is made up of polysaccharide glucosamine polyose fibrils inset with pigments, proteins, lipids, and N-acyl catecholamines (Richard et al. 2010). Extracellular fluid containing enzymes, lipases, proteases, and chitinases is released and degrades the main components of the cuticle (i.e., lipids, proteins, and chitin), allowing penetration of the fungus (Wang et al. 2005;Cho et al. 2006a). Lipase enzymes have complicated pathogen acrimony and play various roles in the process of microbial infection (Stehr et al. 2003). ...
... However, the main problem limiting the marketability of mycobiopesticides is that they take more time to kill their target hosts than chemical pesticides do ( view enhance as well as ameliorate acerbity of such mold to a bigger expanse than its personal action that accelerates application of formulated products present in market. Excellent quantity of transcribe and gene modification work of entomopathogenic molds contamination procedure let out availability few different genes participate in the pathogenic action in the same way as chitinase enzymes (Cho et al. 2006b(Cho et al. , 2007Wang et al. 2005;Fang et al. 2005;Bagga et al. 2004). Guanine nucleotide-binding protein and its regulator (Fang et al. , 2008, adhesin, aid the attachment of spores. ...
