title: Phylogenetic relationship between different race representative populations of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceris in respect of translation elongation factor-1α, β-tubulin, and internal transcribed spacer region genes.
abstract: Genetic diversity of 70 isolates of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceris originated from various states of India representing eight races causing wilt in chickpea (Cicer arietinum) was analyzed using translation elongation factor-1α (TEF-1α), β-tubulin, and internal transcribed spacer (ITS) gene regions. TEF-1α, β-tubulin, and ITS gene-specific markers produced ~720-, ~500-, and ~550-bp amplicons, respectively, in all the isolates of the pathogen. A phylogenetic tree constructed from the sequences generated in the present study along with the sequences of foreign isolates of Fusarium species available in NCBI database sharing more than 90 % nucleotide sequence similarity grouped the isolates into two major clusters. Most of the isolates of the present study showed more or less similar grouping pattern in case of the three gene sequences. Each group had the isolates representing different races as well as place of origin indicating low level of diversity among the isolates in respect of these gene sequences. Except TEF-1α, the groups generated by β-tubulin and ITS gene sequences did not correspond to the state of origin and races of the pathogen. However, the groups of TEF-1α partially corresponded to the place of origin as well as races of the pathogen. The isolates did not show any race-specific grouping patterns; however, most of the isolates representing race 1 clustered separately.
authors.affiliation: Division of Plant Pathology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, 110012, India, scdube2002@yahoo.co.in.
authors.forename: Sunil C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Dubey
authors.forename: Kumari
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Priyanka
authors.forename: Vivek
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Singh
mesh_terms: D029863:Cicer / Q000382:microbiology*; D021903:DNA, Ribosomal Spacer / Q000235:genetics; D005670:Fusarium / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics*; D005800:Genes, Fungal / Q000235:genetics*; D014644:Genetic Variation; D008967:Molecular Biology; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010445:Peptide Elongation Factors / Q000235:genetics; D010802:Phylogeny; D014404:Tubulin / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D021903:DNA, Ribosomal Spacer; D010445:Peptide Elongation Factors; D014404:Tubulin