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Stylosanthes  sp. is the most important forage legume in tropical areas worldwide.  Stylosanthes  anthracnose, which is mainly caused by  Colletotrichum gloeosporioides , is a globally severe disease in stylo production. Little progress has been made in anthracnose molecular pathogenesis research. In this study,  Agrobacterium tumefaciens -mediated transformation was used to transform  Stylosanthes colletotrichum  strain CH008. The major factors of the genetic transformation system of  S. colletotrichum  were optimized as follows:  A. tumefaciens ’ AGL-1 concentration (OD 600 ), 0.8; concentration of  Colletotrichum  conidium, 1×10 6  conidia/mL; acetosyringone concentration, 100 mmol/L; induction time, 6 h; co-culture temperature, 25°C; and co-culture time, 3 d. Thus, the transformation efficiency was increased to 300–400 transformants per 106 conidia. Based on the optimized system, a mutant library containing 4616 mutants was constructed, from which some mutants were randomly selected for analysis. Results show that the mutants were single copies that could be stably inherited. The growth rate, spore amount, spore germination rate, and appressorium formation rate in some mutants were significantly different from those in the wild-type strain. We then selected the most appropriate method for the preliminary screening and re-screening of each mutant’s pathogenic defects. We selected 1230 transformants, and obtained 23 strains with pathogenic defects, namely, 18 strains with reduced pathogenicity and five strains with lost pathogenicity. Thermal asymmetric interlaced PCR was used to identify the transfer DNA (T-DNA) integration site in the mutant that was coded 2430, and a sequence of 476 bp was obtained. The flanking sequence of T-DNA was compared with the  Colletotrichum  genome by BLAST, and a sequence of 401 bp was found in Contig464 of the  Colletotrichum  genome. By predicting the function of the flanking sequence, we discovered that T-DNA insertion in the promoter region of the putative gene had 79% homology with the aspartate aminotransferase gene in  Magnaporthe oryzae  (XP_003719674.1).

Cloning of Insertion Site Flanking Sequence and Construction of Transfer DNA Insert Mutant Library in Stylosanthes Colletotrichum