Pseudocercospora fijiensis Conidial Germination Is Dominated by Pathogenicity Factors and Effectors

Conidia play a vital role in the survival and rapid spread of fungi. Many biological processes conidia, such as adhesion, signal transduction, regulation oxidative stress, autophagy, have been well studied. In contrast, contribution pathogenicity factors during development conidia fungal phytopathogens has poorly investigated. To date, few reports centered on functions phytopathogen conidia. Pseudocercospora fijiensis is hemibiotrophic fungus causal agent black Sigatoka disease bananas plantains. Here, conidial transcriptome P. was characterized computationally. Carbohydrates, amino acids, lipid metabolisms presented highest number annotations Gene Ontology. Common were found, but interestingly, effectors also identified. Upon analysis resulting proteins against Pathogen–Host Interaction (PHI) database, 754 hits WideEffHunter EffHunter effector predictors identified 618 effectors, 265 them shared with PHI database. A total 1107 devoted to pathogenesis found after our analysis. Regarding effectorome, it comprise 40 canonical 578 non-canonical effectors. Effectorome characterization revealed that RXLR, LysM, Y/F/WxC are largest families effectorome. Ontology classification suggests they involved many metabolisms, expanding current knowledge