User talk:Feliciape/sandbox

Hi Feliciape

Your page seems to cover the main bases of the fungus which is great! A few suggestions:

When you mention that it is a “well established model for the gene-gene interaction between a plant and a pathogen” I am not sure what this means. If you could elaborate more on this, it would be perfect! Considering it is likely that many people may stumble on this page that are not necessarily in science, maybe providing a brief description on what this means would be great! Also, providing hyperlinks for the description you will provide is a great way to make it easy for the reader and yourself, and I see that you have already utilized this technique which is great!

You also mention that this is a biotrophic fungus. Do you know if this is an obligate or facultative biotroph? Furthermore, you mention it infects tomato plants. Do you know whether or not it is similar to Alternaria? Does it cause the same shock hole disease? If not, does it have a commonly seen phenotype in farming or gardening? This would also be a great place to include an image of what it looks like on plants!

I am also interested in knowing whether or not this fungus has a Teleomorphic phase? (sexual). In addition, does it produce any mould? Considering that it belongs to the ascomycetes, there is a high chance that it does. This would be interesting to include. You also say “Different races of P.fulvum”, did you mean species?

You mention the protein that is involved, I think this should be capitalized because in lower case you are referring to the gene, so maybe MR3186 is a better idea. I like that you went into detail about how the fungus attacks the plant! That being said, maybe providing an image of plant anatomy could be helpful for readers to get a better idea of where exactly the stomata is, as well as hyperlinking the word stomata.

You mention a “cf9” tomato, I’m not so sure what this is. Maybe you could elaborate more on this? You also mention that it is found wherever tomato plants are found, is this also regardless of the species? There are many different kinds of tomatoes out there so do you know if they are all susceptible to infection? Furthermore, considering there is a rise in genetically modified (GM) crops, do you know if there has been a GM tomato plant that is no longer susceptible to this kind of infection? Lastly, I am very curious as to how this fungus is able to propagate itself. Do you know about whether or not it produces Apothecia, Perithecia/ Psuedothecia, Cleistothecia, or Gmynothecia? These as you may recall were discussed in class and could provide some insight to the propagation.

To conclude, a nice image of your fungus is always a good idea! Asking the professors for good sources for images would be a good step to obtaining some great photos! Keep up the good work! Looking forward to seeing the completed product!

Halatamim (talk) 15:07, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

Hey, I looked over you rough draft of your article and it looks like a great starting point but I had some suggestions which can be found below,

Under Taxonomy, it’s great that you added the lineage of how this fungi got separated and became its own genus and so on but for your final article make sure to emphasize on the fungi you were assigned and more regarding the taxonomy of it. Such as adding sub headings associated with its sexual or asexual forms; such as the anamorph species or the teleomorph species associated with the fungi. Also maybe expand on the why this was associated with one then changed to the next. By expanding on the why it may be a great leeway into creating good flow between your taxonomy section and your Growth and morphology section.

I think you did a great job under your growth and morphology section and once you do expand points it’ll be great. Just make sure to not get physiology and morphology mixed up when you do frutehr research and add to both section. In your final article make sure to go over your sections and just double check you did place the right information in the right section. One thing you can add to this section is maybe subheadings pertaining to the growth of the fungi from initial stages to mature stages, that might a neat addition.

Under Habitat and ecology, I see you mentioned grows where tomatoes grow, when expanding on this point you can discuss the common elements mentioned in literatures such as actual places. Just to give some examples instead of leaving just bluntly like so. Adding examples and maybe looking into specific tomatoes maybe this may grow on can be a great addition. There are many types of tomatoes so doing research and seeing if there is common tomatoes mentioned in literature and mentioning that can be good under this section.

I think you should add a new section labeled Pathogenicity of fungi or something along those lines and then describe the pathogen or infections associated with this and then flow into human impact being you last section which can be a concluding section.

Under this human impact section, you should add more about the health outcomes of the fungi. Add maybe cases you can find in literature of what occurs when one eats it or comes in contact with it. Expanding more on disease impact or outcome in addition to what you already mentioned about the commercial problem. Maybe you can even add more information on treatment if there is any out there and if not then do mention research that currently happening and where its heading for next steps.

Lastly, I found some articles/links that might be helpful for your research

Link: 1.)	http://www.extension.umn.edu/garden/fruit-vegetable/plant-diseases/leaf-mold-tomato/index.html

2.)	http://ballpublishing.com/GrowerTalks/ViewArticle.aspx?articleid=20665

Article:

3.)	Cladosporium fulvum (syn. Passalora fulva), a highly specialized plant pathogen as a model for functional studies on plant pathogenic Mycosphaerellaceae by: BART P. H. J. THOMMA, H. PETER VAN ESSE, PEDRO W. CROUS AND PIERRE J. G. M. DE WIT

4.)	First occurrence of tomato leaf mold caused by the novel races 2.5.9 and 4.5.9 of Passalora fulva in Japan by: Masaharu Kubota, Masaji Morishima, Yuichiro Iida

5.)	Antifungal activity of Streptomycesalbidoflavus L131 against the leaf mold pathogen Passalora fulva involves membrane leakage and oxidative damage by: Chao Chen, Yumei Wang, Chun Su, Xinqing Zhao, Ming Li, Xiaowei Meng, Yingyu Jin, Seung-Hwan Yang, Yushu Ma, Dongzhi Wei, Joo-Won Suh

6.)	THE CHARACTERISATION OF FUNGI Passalora fulva (Cooke) U.Braun&Crous PATHOTYPES, CAUSER OF TOMATO LEAF MOLD IN CROATIA by Adrijana Novak

Trinity17 (talk) 20:58, 27 October 2016 (UTC)