Postdoctoral Fellowship in Plant Biology Special Starter Grant: Establishment of Experimental System for Cronartium quercuum f. sp. fusiforme

9321896隐蔽真菌Cronartium quercuum fusiforme在南方松树中引起梭形锈病。 真菌必须与两种不同的宿主树木（松树和橡树）一起生长，才能完成其生命周期。 这项启动资金是基于Covert博士的NSF植物博士后奖学金，用于资助旨在鉴定与松树虫瘿原因有关的基因以及不同宿主的不同孢子形式的特异性的研究。 目前正在收集这种真菌的基因，并正在开发对这种真菌进行遗传改造的技术。 梭形锈病是美国南部最具经济意义的树木病害。 这些实验将使分子生物学技术能够应用于研究这种真菌如何引起疾病以及如何自我传播。 ***

9321896 Covert The fungus Cronartium quercuum fusiforme causes fusiform rust in Southern pines. The fungus must grow in association with two different host trees, pine and oak, in order to complete its life cycle. This starter grant, based on Dr. Covert's NSF Plant Postdoctoral Fellowship, is funding research aimed at the identification of genes involved with the cause of galls on pines and the specificity of different spore forms for different hosts. A collection of genes from the fungus is being made, and techniques are being developed to genetically transform the fungus. %%% Fusiform rust is the most economically significant tree disease in the Southern United States. These experiments will allow the techniques of molecular biology to be applied to studies of how this fungus causes disease and how it propagates itself. ***