The origin of the emerging populations of the Brachiaria collar rot pathogen (Rhizoctonia solani AG-1 IA) in the Amazon and its potential for adaptation to another Brazilian agroecosystem

• Grant number: 11/50150-3
• Support Opportunities: BIOTA-FAPESP Program - Regular Research Grants
• Start date: April 01, 2012
• End date: September 30, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Agronomy - Plant Health
• Principal Investigator: Paulo Cezar Ceresini
• Grantee: Paulo Cezar Ceresini
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Engenharia (FEIS). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Ilha Solteira. Ilha Solteira , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Emerging plant pathogens are pathogens that have been recently introduced, discovered or newly recognized; have newly evolved; have increased in incidence, expanded geographically or in host range; or have changed pathogenic properties. An emerging fungal pathogen has the potential to become endemic, epidemic and even pandemic in nature. Devastating new fungal diseases are constantly emerging from the ecosystem. Using evolutionary theory and phylogeographical approaches, our goal is to provide a framework for evaluating the emergence of new pathogens considering the adaptability to environmental changes and the fit between new pathogen invaders and the new combinations of host/environment. We have chosen a system to study the emergence of a devastating fungal disease in Brazil: the originally rice-infecting pathogen Rhizoctonia solani AG-1 IA, which has a worldwide distribution and emerged as a Brachiaria pathogen in the Brazilian Amazon and the Colombian Llanos. The questions we ask in this proposal are: i. Was the emergence of this disease due to the introduction of the pathogen into new environments or have host-shifts occurred between geographically overlapping host species? ii. Was the emergence of this disease facilitated by environmental changes, such as changing habitats (eg, crop replacement, crop rotation)? iii. Considering the pathogen’s potential for host-shifts, the corresponding hosts’ susceptibility, and the fact that the pathogen has already emerged independently twice, is it possible to predict the patterns of emergence of this disease in a new agroecosystem? Our prediction is that in Sao Paulo’s Vale do Paraiba region (where Brachiaria and rice crops are geographically contiguous or overlapping) the local populations of R. solani AG-1 IA could also emerge as a Brachiaria pathogen. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

MESA, ECLISSON CHAVARRO; CERESINI, PAULO C.; MOLINA, LINA M. RAMOS; PEREIRA, DANILO A. S.; SCHURT, DANIEL A.; VIEIRA, JR., JOSE R.; POLONI, NADIA M.; MCDONALD, BRUCE A.. The Urochloa Foliar Blight and Collar Rot Pathogen Rhizoctonia solani AG-1 IA Emerged in South America Via a Host Shift from Rice. PHYTOPATHOLOGY, v. 105, n. 11, p. 1475-1486, NOV 2015. (13/11944-0, 11/23050-8, 11/50150-3)

DOS SANTOS PEREIRA, DANILO A.; CERESINI, PAULO C.; CASTROAGUDIN, VANINA L.; RAMOS-MOLINA, LINA M.; CHAVARRO-MESA, EDISSON; NEGRISOLI, MATHEUS MEREB; CAMPOS, SAMARA NUNES; PEGOLO, MAURO E. S.; TAKADA, HELIO MINORU. Population Genetic Structure of Rhizoctonia oryzae-sativae from Rice in Latin America and Its Adaptive Potential to Emerge as a Pathogen on Urochloa Pastures. PHYTOPATHOLOGY, v. 107, n. 1, p. 121-131, JAN 2017. (13/11944-0, 14/25904-2, 11/23050-8, 11/50150-3)

VICENTINI, SAMARA NUNES CAMPOS; DE CARVALHO, GISELLE; KRUG, LOANE DANTAS; NUNES, TIAGO CALVES; DA SILVA, ABIMAEL GOMES; MOREIRA, SILVINO INTRA; GONCALVES, LUCAS MATHEUS DE DEUS PAES; SILVA, TATIANE CARLA; CERESINI, PAULO CEZAR. Bioprospecting Fluorescent Pseudomonas from the Brazilian Amazon for the Biocontrol of Signal Grass Foliar Blight. AGRONOMY-BASEL, v. 12, n. 6, p. 15-pg., 2022-06-01. (17/03403-0, 11/50150-3, 11/23050-8, 13/11944-0)

CHAVARRO-MESA, EDISSON; CERESINI, PAULO; PEREIRA, DANILO; VICENTINI, SAMARA; SILVA, TATIANE; RAMOS-MOLINA, LINA; NEGRISOLI, MATHEUS; SCHURT, DANIEL; VIEIRA JUNIOR, JOSE R.. A broad diversity survey of Rhizoctonia species from the Brazilian Amazon reveals the prevalence of R. solani AG-1 IA on signal grass and the new record of AG-1 IF on cowpea and soybeans. PLANT PATHOLOGY, v. 69, n. 3, JAN 2020. (11/50150-3, 11/23050-8, 13/11944-0, 17/03403-0)

LINA MARIA RAMOS-MOLINA; EDISSON CHAVARRO-MESA; DANILO AUGUSTO DOS SANTOS PEREIRA; MARÍA DEL ROSARIO SILVA-HERRERA; PAULO CEZAR CERESINI. Rhizoctonia solani AG-1 IA infecta arroz e braquiária nos Llanos Colombianos. Pesqui. Agropecu. Trop., v. 46, n. 1, p. 65-71, 2016-03-00. (13/11944-0, 11/50150-3, 11/23050-8)

NADIA MARIA POLONI; LINA MARIA RAMOS MOLINA; EDISSON CHAVARRO MESA; IZABELA LOPES GARCIA; PAULO CEZAR CERESINI. Evidência de que o fungo Rhizoctonia solani AG-1 IA adaptado à Urochloa na Colômbia mantém ampla gama de hospedeiros incluindo o milho. Summa Phytopathologica, v. 42, n. 3, p. 228-232, 2016-09-00. (11/50150-3, 11/23050-8)