scholarly journals Resistance of Transgenic Prunus domestica to Plum Pox Virus Infection

Plant Disease ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 81 (11) ◽  
pp. 1231-1235 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Ravelonandro ◽  
R. Scorza ◽  
J. C. Bachelier ◽  
G. Labonne ◽  
L. Levy ◽  
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Transgenic plum trees (Prunus domestica) containing the plum pox potyvirus coat protein (PPV-CP) gene were inoculated with PPV by aphid feeding or chip budding. Infection was monitored by evaluation of virus symptoms, DAS-ELISA, and immunoblot assays. Based on observations and analyses over 3 years including two dormancy cycles, one out of five transgenic clones (C-5), was found to be resistant to infection whether inoculated by aphids or by chip budding. PPV could not be detected in any inoculated plants of the C-5 clone by immunoblot or immunocap-ture-reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction assays. To our knowledge, this is the first P. domestica clone resistant to PPV infection produced by genetic engineering.

Plant Disease ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 81 (9) ◽  
pp. 1066-1069 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prem Mehta ◽  
R. H. Brlansky ◽  
S. Gowda ◽  
R. K. Yokomi

A rapid and simple reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) method was developed for the detection of citrus tristeza virus (CTV) in three aphid species. Seven CTV isolates from a worldwide isolate collection were used for aphid acquisition feeding by three aphid species. These included the most efficient CTV vector, the brown citrus aphid, Toxoptera citricida; the melon aphid, Aphis gossypii; and the green peach aphid, Myzus persicae, a non-vector for CTV. A short procedure for nucleic acid extraction from single or groups of aphids was developed. Nucleic acid extracts from 1, 3, 5, and 10 aphids with acquisition-access periods of 24 and 48 h were reverse transcribed and amplified using primers for the coat protein gene of the Florida B3 (T-36) isolate of CTV. PCR-amplified fragments of approximately 670 bp were obtained from all the isolates tested and the amplified product from the aphids fed on citrus infected with isolate B3 was confirmed as the CTV coat protein gene by digesting with various restriction enzymes. This technique will be useful in investigations of CTV-vector-plant interactions and CTV epidemiology.


2001 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-79
Author(s):  
Hasriadi Mat Akin

The use of nonradioactive probe (Digoxigenin-DNA)  for  detection of peanut stripe virus.  The objective of this experiment was to develop the nonradioactive-labeled probe to detect peanut stripe virus (PStV) in peanut leaves and seeds. Digoxigenin labeled cDNA (dig-DNA probe) was synthesized from recombinant plasmid (pHS1.23) using polymerase chain reaction (PCR).  The probe containing 1.195 bp (base pair) corresponding to 3' termini, included part of NIb (nuclear inclusion body) gene, coat protein gene, and 3' untranslated region of PStV genome was used to detect the existence of PStV in peanut leaves and seeds of infected peanut plants.  


2006 ◽  
Vol 96 (3) ◽  
pp. 320-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nieves Capote ◽  
M. Teresa Gorris ◽  
M. Carmen Martínez ◽  
Margarita Asensio ◽  
Antonio Olmos ◽  
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The dynamics of virus interference between two isolates of Plum pox virus (PPV) belonging to the main PPV types, D and M, were analyzed in Japanese plum (Prunus salicina) by challenge inoculations. To assess the consequences of a PPV-M infection on plum already infected with PPV-D, and vice versa (predominance of one of the strains, recombination, synergism, symptoms aggravation, and so on), 30 Japanese plum trees were graft inoculated with PPV-D or PPV-M isolates in quarantine conditions. One year postinoculation, in the event that the inoculated isolates were detected in the whole plant, a second challenge inoculation (PPV-M or PPV-D, respectively) was performed by grafting. The presence of PPV-D, PPV-M, or both was monitored for 7 years by double-antibody sandwich indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay using specific monoclonal antibodies. Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) with D- and M-specific primers confirmed the serological typing. Real-time RT-PCR assays were performed using D- and M-specific fluorescent 3′ minor groove binder-DNA probes, which were able to detect and quantify PPV populations in the inoculated plants with greater precision. The presence of PPV-D in Japanese plum did not cross-protect the trees against PPV-M infection. In PPV-D-infected plants, the PPV-M strain used as challenge inoculum behaved differently depending on the plum cultivar assayed. In cv. Black Diamond, PPV-M invaded the plant progressively, displacing the previous PPV-D population; whereas, in cv. Sun Gold, both PPV isolates coexisted in the plant. In contrast, the PPV-D isolate used was unable to infect plants of both cultivars in which a PPV-M population already was established. After 7 years, no synergism was observed and no recombination event between PPV-D and PPV-M genomes was detected.


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