Structure of Verticillium dahliae populations unravelled by GBS and microsatellite markers

What is it about?

Verticillium dahliae is an asexually-reproducing, soil-borne plant pathogenic fungus that causes vascular wilt in a large number of dicotyledonous species. This fungus has a markedly clonal population structure with races, pathotypes, and host adaptation correlating with clonal lineages . This makes it possible to predict the biological characteristics of V. dahliae isolates using molecular markers that define clonal lineages. V. dahliae isolates can be assigned to clonal lineages by SNP genotyping using genotype by sequencing, which is costly and time consuming. In this study we established that clonal lineages found previously can now by defined by microsatellites. The low cost and accessibility of microsatellites makes them useful for providing rapid information about the biology of V. dahliae populations present in a particular area

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