Systemic infection of some N-gene-carrying Nicotiana species and cultivars after inoculation with tobacco mosaic virus

1977 ◽  
Vol 83 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeanne Dijkstra ◽  
G. C. A. Bruin ◽  
Ankie C. Burgers ◽  
L. C. Loon ◽  
Christien Ritter ◽  
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2018 ◽  
Vol 54 (No. 3) ◽  
pp. 143-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Depta Anna ◽  
Kursa Karolina ◽  
Doroszewska Teresa ◽  
Laskowska Dorota ◽  
Trojak-Goluch Anna

Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) brings increasing losses in the cultivation of tobacco. Sixty-two cultivars of tobacco and eleven species of Nicotiana were evaluated for resistance to TMV. Biological tests at two temperature ranges, DAS-ELISA and molecular markers were applied to assess the resistance to TMV. Most cultivars of tobacco showed susceptibility (S) to TMV, two were tolerant (T), while others revealed a hypersensitive response (HR). Hypersensitivity, determined by the N gene, occurred only at a temperature below 22°C. At a temperature above 28°C, all the cultivars showed mosaic discolorations or extensive necrosis. The reaction of the Nicotiana species was dependent on growth conditions. At 22°C, the reactions of sensitivity, tolerance and hypersensitivity to TMV were all observed, whereas above 28°C the species showed systemic necrotic symptoms. N. gossei was an exception because hypersensitivity occurred regardless of the thermal conditions. The resistance of this species was not conditioned by the N gene, which suggests that N. gossei could be an additional genetic resource for tobacco breeding.  


Author(s):  
K. W. Mundry ◽  
W. Schaible ◽  
M. Ellwart-Tschürtz ◽  
H. Nitschko ◽  
C. Hapke

2017 ◽  
Vol 107 (2) ◽  
pp. 148-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen-Beth G. Scholthof

One of the seminal events in plant pathology was the discovery by Francis O. Holmes that necrotic local lesions induced on certain species of Nicotiana following rub-inoculation of Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) was due to a specific interaction involving a dominant host gene (N). From this, Holmes had an idea that if the N gene from N. glutinosa was introgressed into susceptible tobacco, the greatly reduced titer of TMV would, by extension, prevent subsequent infection of tomato and pepper plants by field workers whose hands were contaminated with TMV from their use of chewing and smoking tobacco. The ultimate outcome has many surprising twists and turns, including Holmes’ failure to obtain fertile crosses of N. glutinosa × N. tabacum after 3 years of intensive work. Progress was made with N. digluta, a rare amphidiploid that was readily crossed with N. tabacum. And, importantly, the first demonstration by Holmes of the utility of interspecies hybridization for virus resistance was made with Capsicum (pepper) species with the identification of the L gene in Tabasco pepper, that he introgressed into commercial bell pepper varieties. Holmes’ findings are important as they predate Flor’s gene-for-gene hypothesis, show the use of interspecies hybridization for control of plant pathogens, and the use of the local lesion as a bioassay to monitor resistance events in crop plants.


2006 ◽  
Vol 87 (4) ◽  
pp. 1005-1012 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. A. Bazzini ◽  
S. Asurmendi ◽  
H. E. Hopp ◽  
R. N. Beachy

Replication of Potato virus X (PVX) was reduced in transgenic protoplasts that accumulated wild-type coat protein (CPWT) of Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) or a mutant CP, CPT42W, that produced highly ordered states of aggregation, including pseudovirions. This reaction is referred to as heterologous CP-mediated resistance. However, protoplasts expressing a CP mutant that abolished aggregation and did not produce pseudovirions, CPT28W, did not reduce PVX replication. Similarly, in transgenic tobacco plants producing TMV CPWT or CPT42W, there was a delay in local cell-to-cell spread of PVX infection that was not observed in CPT28W plants or in non-transgenic plants. The results suggest that the quaternary structure of the TMV CP regulates the mechanism(s) of heterologous CP-mediated resistance. Similarly, transgenic protoplasts that produced PVX CP conferred transient protection against infection by TMV RNA. Transgenic plants that accumulated PVX CP reduced the cell-to-cell spread of infection and resulted in a delay in systemic infection following inoculation with TMV or TMV RNA. Heterologous CP-mediated resistance was characterized by a brief delay in systemic infection, whilst homologous CP-mediated resistance conferred reduced or no systemic infection.


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