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Appl Environ Microbiol. 1993 February; 59(2): 585-593
Copyright © 1993, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Karyotypic Variation within Clonal Lineages of the Rice Blast Fungus, Magnaporthe grisea

Nicholas J. Talbot, Yangkyo P. Salch{dagger}, Margery Ma and John E. Hamer*

Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907

ABSTRACT

We have analyzed the karyotype of the rice blast fungus, Magnaporthe grisea, by using pulsed-filed gel electrophoresis. We tested whether the electrophoretic karyotype of an isolate was related to its pathotype, as determined by infection assays, or its genetic lineage, as determined by DNA fingerprinting. Highly reproducible electrophoretic karyotypes were obtained for a collection of U.S. and Chinese isolates representing a diverse collection of pathotypes and genetic lineages. Chromosomes ranged in size from 3 to 10 Mb. Although chromosome number was largely invariant, chromosome length polymorphisms were frequent. Minichromosomes were also found, although their presence was not ubiquitous. They ranged in number from 1 to 3 and in size from 470 kb to 2.2 Mb. Karyotypes were sufficiently variable as to obscure the obvious relatedness of isolates on the basis of pathogenicity assays or genetic lineage analysis by DNA fingerprinting. We documented that the electrophoretic karyotype of an isolate can change after prolonged serial transfer in culture and that this change did not alter the isolate's pathotype. The mechanisms bringing about karyotype variability involve deletions, translocations, and more complex rearrangements. We conclude that karyotypic variability in the rice blast fungus is a reflection of the lack of sexuality in wild populations which leads to the maintenance of neutral genomic rearrangements in clones of the fungus.

FOOTNOTES

* Corresponding author.

{dagger} Present address: Department of Plant Pathology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL 61801.

Appl Environ Microbiol. 1993 February; 59(2): 585-593
Copyright © 1993, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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