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Citation for Study 16807

About Citation title: "Phylogenetic and Chemotyphic Diversity of Periglandula Species in Eight New Morning Glory Hosts (Convolvulaceae).".
About Study name: "Phylogenetic and Chemotyphic Diversity of Periglandula Species in Eight New Morning Glory Hosts (Convolvulaceae).".
About This study is part of submission 16807 (Status: Published).

Citation

Beaulieu W.T., Panaccione D.G., Ryan K.L., Kaonongbua W., & Clay K. 2015. Phylogenetic and Chemotyphic Diversity of Periglandula Species in Eight New Morning Glory Hosts (Convolvulaceae). Mycologia, .

Authors

  • Beaulieu W.T. (submitter) Phone 4012069522
  • Panaccione D.G.
  • Ryan K.L.
  • Kaonongbua W.
  • Clay K.

Abstract

Periglandula ipomoeae and P. turbinae (Ascomycota, Clavicipitaceae) are recently described fungi that form symbiotic associations with the morning glories (Convolvulaceae) Ipomoea asarifolia and Turbina corymbosa, respectively. These Periglandula species are vertically transmitted and produce bioactive ergot alkaloids in seeds of infected plants and ephemeral mycelia on the adaxial leaf surface of young leaves. Whether other morning glories that contain ergot alkaloids are also infected by Periglandula fungi is a central question. Here we report on a survey of eight species of Convolvulaceae (Argyreia nervosa, I. amnicola, I. argillicola, I. gracilis, I. hildebrandtii, I. leptophylla, I. muelleri and I. pes-caprae) for ergot alkaloids in seeds and associated clavicipitaceous fungi potentially responsible for their production. All host species contained ergot alkaloids in four distinct chemotypes with concentrations ranging from 15.8 μg/g to 3223.0 μg/g. Each chemotype was a combination of four or five ergot alkaloids out of seven alkaloids detected across all hosts. Additionally, each host species exhibited characteristic epiphytic mycelia on adaxial surfaces of young leaves with considerable interspecific differences in mycelial density. We sequenced three loci from fungi infecting each host: the nuclear rDNA internal transcribed spacer region (ITS), introns of the translation factor 1-α gene (tefA) and the dimethylallyl-tryptophan synthase gene (dmaW), which codes for the enzyme that catalyzes the first step in ergot alkaloid biosynthesis. Phylogenetic analyses confirmed that these fungi are in the family Clavicipitaceae and form a monophyletic group with the two described Periglandula species. This study is the first to report Periglandula spp. from Asian, Australian, African and North American species of Convolvulaceae, including host species with a shrub growth form and host species occurring outside of the tropics. This study demonstrates that ergot alkaloids in morning glories always co-occur with Periglandula spp. and that closely related Periglandula spp. produce alkaloid chemotypes more similar than more distantly related species.

Keywords

Endophyte, Clavicipitaceae, defensive chemistry, ergoline alkaloids, hereditary symbiosis, morning glories, Hawaiian baby woodrose, secondary metabolites

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