Species Complex: A Bibliographic Analysis and Web-Accessible Database for Global Mapping of Species and Trichothecene Toxin Chemotypes.

Emerson M Del Ponte, Gláucia M Moreira, Todd J Ward, Kerry O'Donnell, Camila P Nicolli, Franklin J Machado, Maíra R Duffeck, Kaique S Alves, Dauri J Tessmann, Cees Waalwijk, Theo van der Lee, Hao Zhang, Sofia N Chulze, Sebastian A Stenglein, Dinorah Pan, Silvana Vero, Lisa J Vaillancourt, David G Schmale, Paul D Esker, Antonio Moretti, Antonio F Logrieco, H Corby Kistler, Gary C Bergstrom, Altus Viljoen, Lindy J Rose, Gert J van Coller, Theresa Lee

Journal: Phytopathology 2022;112(4):741-751

PMID: 34491796

Abstract

is ranked among the five most destructive fungal pathogens that affect agroecosystems. It causes floral diseases in small grain cereals including wheat, barley, and oats, as well as maize and rice. We conducted a systematic review of peer-reviewed studies reporting species within the species complex (FGSC) and created two main data tables. The first contained summarized data from the articles including bibliographic, geographic, methodological (ID methods), host of origin and species, while the second data table contains information about the described strains such as publication, isolate code(s), host/substrate, year of isolation, geographical coordinates, species and trichothecene genotype. Analyses of the bibliographic data obtained from 123 publications from 2000 to 2021 by 498 unique authors and published in 40 journals are summarized. We describe the frequency of species and chemotypes for 16,274 strains for which geographical information was available, either provided as raw data or extracted from the publications, and sampled across six continents and 32 countries. The database and interactive interface are publicly available, allowing for searches, summarization, and mapping of strains according to several criteria including article, country, host, species and trichothecene genotype. The database will be updated as new articles are published and should be useful for guiding future surveys and exploring factors associated with species distribution such as climate and land use. Authors are encouraged to submit data at the strain level to the database, which is accessible at https://fgsc.netlify.app.

Address: Departamento de Fitopatologia, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, MG, 36570-900 Brazil.; Agricultural Research Service, National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Peoria 61604, U.S.A.; Departamento de Agronomia, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Maringá, PR, 87020-900 Brazil.; Biointeractions & Plant Health, Wageningen Plant Research, Wageningen, 6708PB, The Netherlands.; State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100193, China.; Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Río Cuarto, 5800 Argentina.; Laboratorio de Biología Funcional y Biotecnología, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad Nacional del Centro, Buenos Aires, 7300, Argentina.; Universidad de la República, Facultad de Ciencias-Facultad de Ingeniería, Montevideo, 11800, Uruguay.; Department of Plant Pathology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, 40546-0312, U.S.A.; School of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, 24061-0390, U.S.A.; Department of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, 16802, U.S.A.; National Research Council of Research, Institute of Sciences of Food Production, 70126 Bari, Italy.; Agricultural Research Service, Cereal Disease Laboratory, U.S. Department of Agriculture, St. Paul 55108, U.S.A.; School of Integrative Plant Science, Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section, Cornell University, Ithaca 14853-5904, U.S.A.; Department of Plant Pathology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, 7602, South Africa.; Plant Science, Western Cape Department of Agriculture, Elsenburg, 7607, South Africa.; Microbial Safety Team, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Wanju, 55365, Republic of Korea.

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