Arsenal of plant cell wall degrading enzymes reflects host preference among plant pathogenic fungi

Table 1 Species used for comparison of lifestyle (pathogenic or non-pathogenic) and host specificity (monocot or dicot).

Dicot	Monocot	Non-pathogenic
Botrytis cinerea	Bipolaris maydis	Aspergillus fumigatus
B. fuckeliana	B. oryzae	A. niger
Colletotrichum destructivum	B.sorokiniana	Clonostachys rosea
C. orbiculare	B. zeicola	Epicoccum sp.
C. trifolii	Colletotrichum caudatum	Humicola fuscoatra
Diaporthe phaseolorum	C. graminicola	Lentinula edodes
Fusarium incarnatum	C. navitas	Mucor hiemalis
F. oxysporum	C. sp.	Neurospora crassa
F. sambucinum	Cyathus stercoreus	Nigrospora sp.
F. solani	Drechslera biseptata	Penicillium vulpinum
Phoma sp.	Fusarium acuminatum	Trichocladium asperum
Phytophthora sojae	F. avenaceum	T. hamatum
Sclerotinia minor	F. crookwellense	T. harzianum
S. sclerotiorum	F. culmorum	T. koningii
S. trifoliorum	F. equiseti	T. sp.
Stemphylium botryosum	F. graminearum	T. viride
Ulocladium cucurbitae	F. heterosporum
	F. moniliforme
	F. proliferatum
	Fusarium sp.
	F. subglutinans
	F. tricinctum
	Phoma sp.
	Phoma zeae-maydis
	Pyricularia grisea
	Rhizoctonia cerealis
	R. zeae
	Sclerotinia homeocarpa

All species were in the top tier of 86 active isolates as determined by clustering analysis using the complete data set. This subset of species was used to test the effect of lifestyle (pathogenic/non-pathogenic) and host specificity (monocot/dicot) on hydrolysis of eight polysaccharides and plant cell walls. For testing lifestyle, three additional pathogens of woody species were also included, Cylindrocarpon didymum, Fusicoccum aesculi and Schizophyllum commune.

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