Mycoviruses are viruses that infect and replicate in fungal cells, but unlike most known viruses of plants and animals, they exceptionally produce deleterious effects on their host. Nonetheless, the last discoveries showed that some mycoviruses can decrease the virulence of their phytopathogenic fungal hosts, making them very attractive for their possible use as biological control agents. Most mycoviruses have dsRNA genomes and are widespread in all major taxa of fungi. Beauveria bassiana is one of the most studied species of entomopathogenic fungi; it has a cosmopolitan distribution and is used as biocontroller against invertebrates in agriculture. In the present work, a collection of 137 isolates of B. bassiana obtained at different locations and from different habitats in the Czech Republic was analysed. These isolates were analysed for the presence of dsRNA elements indicative of viral infections. The results revealed a high prevalence of viral infections in Czech B. bassiana isolates, with 22.6% of the isolates containing dsRNA elements with viral characteristics. Obtained dsRNA electropherotypes showed that virus diversity in infected isolates was high and that mixed virus infections occurred among them. Based on the characteristics of the electrophoretic band patterns, it could be hypothesized that B. bassiana isolates collected in the Czech Republic could harbour members of the viral families Totiviridae, Partitiviridae, Chrysoviridae and Hypoviridae.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:203394 |
| Date | January 2015 |
| Creators | VANĚČEK, Petr |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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