Fungal mitogenomes: Relevant features to planning plant disease management
- Medina, Rocio
- Franco, Mario Emilio Ernesto
- Bartel, Laura Cecilia
- Martínez Alcántara, Virginia
- Saparrat, Mario Carlos Nazareno
- Balatti, Pedro Alberto
DOIAbstract
Mitochondrial genomes (mt-genomes) are characterized by a distinct codon usage and their autonomous replication. Mt-genomes encode highly conserved genes (mt-genes), like proteins involved in electron transport and oxidative phosphorylation but they also carry highly variable regions that are in part responsible for their high plasticity. The degree of conservation of their genes is such that they allow the establishment of phylogenetic relationships even across distantly related species. Here, we describe the mechanisms that generate changes along mt-genomes, which play key roles at enlarging the ability of fungi to adapt to changing environments. Within mt-genomes of fungal pathogens, there are dispensable as well as indispensable genes f...
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