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 …

Decoding the RNA virome of the tree parasite Armillaria provides new insights into the viral community of soil‐borne fungi

W Shamsi, R Heinzelmann, S Ulrich… - Environmental …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The globally distributed basidiomycete genus Armillaria includes wood decomposers that
can act as opportunistic parasites, causing deadly root rot on woody plants. To test whether …

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 …

Multiple Viral Infections Detected in Phytophthora condilina by Total and Small RNA Sequencing

L Botella, T Jung - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
Marine oomycetes have recently been shown to be concurrently infected by (−) ssRNA
viruses of the order Bunyavirales. In this work, even higher virus variability was found in a …

[HTML][HTML] Novel RNA viruses from the native range of Hymenoscyphus fraxineus, the causal fungal agent of ash dieback

W Shamsi, H Kondo, S Ulrich, D Rigling, S Prospero - Virus research, 2022 - Elsevier
The native Japanese population of the fungus Hymenoscyphus fraxineus, the causal agent
of ash dieback in Europe, was screened for viruses using a high-throughput sequencing …

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 …

Three new clades of putative viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerases with rare or unique catalytic triads discovered in libraries of ORFans from powdery mildews and …

M Forgia, M Chiapello, S Daghino, D Pacifico… - Virus …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
High throughput sequencing allowed the discovery of many new viruses and viral
organizations increasing our comprehension of virus origin and evolution. Most RNA viruses …