title: Telomeric fingerprinting of the violet root rot fungus, Helicobasidium mompa: a useful tool for karyotype estimation.
abstract: We hybridized the telomere-associated DNA sequence pTel46 isolated from Coprinus cinereus with Helicobasidium mompa genomic DNA. The hybridized fragments were more sensitive to Bal31 nuclease than those that were not hybridized, suggesting that they were located at the ends of chromosomes in H. mompa. The hybridization profile can be used to estimate chromosome number, since the number of chromosomes in a single basidiospore isolate is about half that in putative parent strains. Thus, single basidiospore and field isolates might be homokaryons and heterokaryons respectively. We found telomere-linked restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs) in strains of H. mompa isolated from field and individual basidiosporcs. Thus, this marker appears to be an excellent tool with which to reveal the considerable polymorphism of H. mompa and to identify strains. The RFLP was not found among several strains of the same mycelial compatibility group (MCG) isolated from the same field, suggesting that strains belonging to an MCG group are identical.
authors.affiliation: Department of Bioresource Development, Hiroshima Prefectural University, Nanatsuka-cho 562, Shobara-shi, Hiroshima, 727-0023, Japan.
authors.forename: Tadanorí
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Aimi
authors.forename: Sanae
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kano
authors.forename: Yoshinorí
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Iwasaki
authors.forename: Tsutomu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Morinaga
mesh_terms: D001487:Basidiomycota / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D003302:Coprinus / Q000235:genetics; D016172:DNA Fingerprinting / Q000379:methods*; D004271:DNA, Fungal / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D007621:Karyotyping / Q000379:methods; D009693:Nucleic Acid Hybridization; D012150:Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length; D016615:Telomere / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D004271:DNA, Fungal