Mycovirus diversity and evolution revealed/inferred from recent studies

H Kondo, L Botella, N Suzuki - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
High-throughput virome analyses with various fungi, from cultured or uncultured sources,
have led to the discovery of diverse viruses with unique genome structures and even neo …

Mycoviruses as a part of the global virome: Diversity, evolutionary links and lifestyle

MA Ayllón, EJ Vainio - Advances in virus research, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Knowledge of mycovirus diversity, evolution, horizontal gene transfer and shared
ancestry with viruses infecting distantly related hosts, such as plants and arthropods, has …

Transcriptome mining expands knowledge of RNA viruses across the plant kingdom

JCO Mifsud, RV Gallagher, EC Holmes… - Journal of …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Our current understanding of plant viruses stems largely from those affecting economically
important plants. Yet plant species in cultivation represent a small and biased subset of the …

A collection of Trichoderma isolates from natural environments in Sardinia reveals a complex virome that includes negative-sense fungal viruses with unprecedented …

S Pagnoni, S Oufensou, V Balmas, D Bulgari… - Virus …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Trichoderma genus includes soil-inhabiting fungi that provide important ecosystem services
in their interaction with plants and other fungi, as well as biocontrol of fungal plant diseases …

High Diversity of Novel Viruses in the Tree Pathogen Phytophthora castaneae Revealed by High-Throughput Sequencing of Total and Small RNA

M Raco, EJ Vainio, S Sutela, A Eichmeier… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Phytophthora castaneae, an oomycete pathogen causing root and trunk rot of different tree
species in Asia, was shown to harbor a rich diversity of novel viruses from different families …

Bunyaviruses Affect Growth, Sporulation, and Elicitin Production in Phytophthora cactorum

A Poimala, M Raco, T Haikonen, M Černý, P Parikka… - Viruses, 2022 - mdpi.com
Phytophthora cactorum is an important oomycetous plant pathogen with numerous host
plant species, including garden strawberry (Fragaria× ananassa) and silver birch (Betula …

[HTML][HTML] New clades of viruses infecting the obligatory biotroph Bremia lactucae representing distinct evolutionary trajectory for viruses infecting oomycetes

M Forgia, S Daghino, M Chiapello, M Ciuffo… - Virus …, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Recent advances in high throughput sequencing (HTS) approaches allowed a broad
exploration of viromes from different fungal hosts, unveiling a great diversity of mycoviruses …

Forest tree virome as a source of tree diseases and biological control agents

EJ Vainio, A Rumbou, JJ Diez, C Büttner - Current Forestry Reports, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review The collective virome of forest trees can be considered to
include not only plant viruses, but also viral communities harbored by all tree-associated …

Discovery and Characterization of Putative Glycoprotein-Encoding Mycoviruses in the Bunyavirales

H Huang, X Hua, X Pang, Z Zhang, J Ren… - Journal of …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Although segmented negative-sense RNA viruses (SNSRVs) have been frequently
discovered in various fungi, most SNSRVs reported only the large segments. In this study …

Characterization of Mycoviruses in Armillaria ostoyae and A. cepistipes in the Czech Republic

L Walterová, L Botella, O Hejna, M de la Peña, T Tonka… - Viruses, 2024 - mdpi.com
Members of the genus Armillaria are widespread forest pathogens against which effective
protection has not yet been developed. Due to their longevity and the creation of large-scale …