Molecular and xylanolytic variation identified among strains of Pyrenophora graminea.

The inter-retrotransposon amplified polymorphism (IRAP) was used to confirm the genetic variation among 22 strains of Pyrenophora graminea differing in their xylanase production. A total of 162 bands were scored of which 151 (93.21%) were polymorphic. The molecular parameter used showed that P. graminea strains reside in four phylogenetic groups. There was observed the resolution between clustering strains and their xylanase production. Hence, the described approach presented here constitutes no prior assumption about the characterization of P. graminea strains differing in xylanase production.