scholarly journals Rubus ellipticus, a Perennial Weed Host of Prunus Necrotic Ring Spot Virus in India

Plant Disease ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 82 (11) ◽  
pp. 1283-1283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anupama Sharma ◽  
Raja Ram ◽  
A. A. Zaidi

Rubus ellipticus is a perennial shrub occurring in natural vegetation of the temperate and subtropical Himalayas. For several years, plants of R. ellipticus in and around the Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology in Palampur were seen with mild mosaic and chlorotic symptoms on leaves followed by necrotic ring spots. Infected plants often recovered from the symptoms. The causal agent was mechanically transmissible to several herbaceous hosts including Cucumis sativus, Chenopodium album, C. quinoa, Cucurbita maxima, C. pepo, Melilotus alba, Trifolium repens, and Zinnia elegans. The virus incited chlorotic local lesions followed by systemic necrotic lesions or ring spots and severe stunting on C. sativus. Several aphid species (Myzus persicae, Aphis gossypii, A.fabae-solanella, Brevicoryne brassicae, and Macrosiphoniella sanbornii) were tried as viral vectors, but all failed to transmit the virus. Virus has been detected in pollen and fruit of infected plants. Ilarvirus-like particles, 27 nm in diameter, were observed in partially purified extracts of symptomatic plants of R. ellipticus and in experimentally infected C. sativus plants, but not in healthy plants. The isolate was distantly serologically related to apple mosaic virus and unrelated to tobacco streak virus. Presence of Prunus necrotic ring spot virus (PNRSV) in symptomatic plants was also confirmed by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay with antiserum from American Type Culture Collection and Agdia, Inc. (Elkhart, IN). This is the first report of a viral disease in R. ellipticus. The presence of PNRSV in a new weed host may become an important constraint to production of susceptible agronomic crops around Palampur.

Plant Disease ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 84 (12) ◽  
pp. 1345-1345 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. M. Girgis ◽  
F. Bem ◽  
P. E. Kyriakopoulou ◽  
C. I. Dovas ◽  
A. P. Sklavounos ◽  
...  

In 1994, characteristic viruslike symptoms on grapevine were reported in the collection of the Grapevine Institute in Athens, Greece, on the hybrid Baresana × Baresana. The symptoms were sharp angular mosaic, leaf crinkle, and little leaf. The affected vines showed gradual decline and severe stunting or death. Such vines produced abortive flowers or very few berries with smaller, wrinkled, and nongerminating seeds. Serological testing, by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), of the affected vines against the most common grapevine viruses Alfalfa mosaic, Arabis mosaic, Grapevine fanleaf, Grapevine fleck, Grapevine A, Rasberry ringspot, and grapevine leafroll-associated viruses gave negative results. A virus was isolated from affected grapevine young leaves by mechanical inoculation of Gomphrena globosa and single lesioned. The virus host range included G. globosa (local and systemic dark red or necrotic lesions), Chenopodium quinoa (necrotic local lesions and systemic mottle), and three tobacco cultivars (sharp necrotic local lesions, 1 to 3 mm in diameter). Pollination of C. quinoa with pollen from infected plant gave about 30% infected seedlings. The virus was purified from C. quinoa by differential centrifugation using 0.02 M phosphate buffer pH 8.0, containing 0.01 M DIECA and 0.01 M sodium thioglycolate as extraction buffers. In a purified preparation, quasisphaerical virus particles of about 29 nm were observed. Electrophoretic mobility of the viral coat protein showed a molecular weight of 30 kDa. Using purified preparations, an antiserum was obtained with a titer of 1:1024 in microprecipitin test and an optimum IgG dilution in ELISA of 1:10,000 for maximum absorption at OD405 nm Using degenerate primers designed from homologous regions in RNA-2 corresponding to a fragment of the polymerase gene of Ilarviruses, the expected 381-bp polymerase chain reaction product was obtained. This product was cloned and sequenced. Comparisons with sequence data from the homologous regions of RNA-2 of other known Ilarviruses, showed that the sequence of the above 381-bp amplicon shared 72% sequence similarity with Tobacco streak virus, 67% of Citrus variegation virus and Spinach latent virus, 66% of Asparagus virus 2 and Elm mottle virus, and 65% of Citrus leaf rugose virus. Based on the above data, it is concluded that the isolated virus is an Ilarvirus with closest similarity to Tobacco streak virus. From the relative bibliography (1–3) it appears that the virus reported here is different from Grapevine line pattern virus, a possible Ilarvirus, previously reported from Hungary. References: (1) J. Lehoczky et al. Kertgazdasag 19:61, 1987. (2) J. Lehoczky et al. Phytoparasitica 17:59, 1989. (3) J. Lehoczky et al. Phytopathol. Medit. 31:115, 1992.


Author(s):  
K. Saratbabu ◽  
K. Vemana ◽  
A.K. Patibanda ◽  
B. Sreekanth ◽  
V. Srinivasa Rao

Background: Peanut stem necrosis disease (PSND) caused by Tobacco streak virus (TSV) is a major constraint for groundnut production in Andhra Pradesh (A.P.). However, studies on prevalence and spread of the disease confined to only few districts of A.P. with this background current study focused on incidence and spread of the disease in entire state of A.P. Further an isolate of TSV occurring in A.P. characterized on the basis of genetic features by comparing with other TSV isolates originated from different hosts and locations from world.Methods: Roving survey was conducted during kharif 2017-18 in groundnut growing districts of Andhra Pradesh (A.P.) for peanut stem necrosis disease incidence. Groundnut plants showing PSND symptoms were collected and tested with direct antigen coating enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (DAC-ELISA). Groundnut samples found positive by ELISA once again tested by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). The representative TSV-GN-INDVP groundnut isolate from Prakasham district was maintained on cowpea seedlings by standard sap inoculation method in glasshouse for further molecular characterization. The Phylogenetic tree for coat protein (CP) gene was constructed using aligned sequences with 1000 bootstrap replicates following neighbor-joining phylogeny.Result: Thirty-eight (52.7%) of seventy-two groundnut samples collected from different locations in A.P were given positive reaction to TSV by DAC-ELISA. For the first time, PSND incidence observed in coastal districts (Krishna, Guntur, Sri Pottisriramulu Nellore, Prakasham) of A.P. Maximum PSND incidence recorded from Bathalapalli (22.2%) and the minimum incidence in Mulakalacheruvu (4.1%). The coat protein (CP) gene of TSV-GN-INDVP groundnut isolate was amplified by RT-PCR and it shared maximum per cent nucleotide identity (97.51-98.62%) with TSV isolates from groundnut and other different crops reported in India. All Indian isolates cluster together irrespective of crop and location based on the phylogenetic analysis.


Plant Disease ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 85 (11) ◽  
pp. 1210-1210 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Aramburu

During spring 2001, plants of different tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) cultivars grown in several commercial fields in the eastern Catalonia Region of Spain had fruit with brown patches and young leaves with rings and a bright necrotic mosaic that progressed to stem necrosis of the apex, which might die and later develop new symptomless shoots. The symptoms were similar to those of Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) and Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV). Sap of tomato sample R1 (in buffered saline [0.02 M sodium phosphate, 0.15 M NaCl at pH 7.2, containing 0.2% 2-mercaptoethanol]) was infective to Cucumis sativus (local necrosis), tomato cv. Marmande (systemic infection consisting of chlorotic local lesions and necrotic mosaic), Nicotiana clevelandii and N. benthamiana (chlorosis and rosetting), and Chenopodium quinoa (chlorotic local lesions, systemic mottle, and leaf distortion). The sap was not infective to N. glutinosa, N. tabacum cv. Xanthi, Datura stramonium, or Gomphrena globosa. The host range data indicated that the infective agent in sample R1 could be Parietaria mottle virus (PMoV) (1). Symptomatic plants inoculated in a greenhouse with the R1 isolate and symptomatic from tomato plants from the field were analyzed by indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and had minimum ELISA values at least 10-fold higher than healthy controls, using a polyclonal antiserum (provided by P. Roggero) of a tomato strain of PMoV denoted tomato virus 1 (2). The R1 isolate of PMoV was negative in ELISA when analyzed with commercial antisera to TSWV, CMV, Tomato mosaic virus, Tomato bushy stunt virus, Potato Y virus, Tobacco etch virus, Pelargonium zonate spot virus, and Tobacco streak virus. References: (1) P. Caciagli et al. Plant Pathol. 38:577, 1989. (2) P. Roggero et al. J. Plant Pathol. 82:159, 2000.


Plant Disease ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 88 (10) ◽  
pp. 1069-1074 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. R. Golnaraghi ◽  
N. Shahraeen ◽  
R. Pourrahim ◽  
Sh. Farzadfar ◽  
A. Ghasemi

A survey was conducted to determine the incidence of Alfalfa mosaic virus (AlMV), Bean common mosaic virus (BCMV), Bean yellow mosaic virus (BYMV), Blackeye cowpea mosaic virus (BlCMV), Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV), Pea enation mosaic virus (PEMV), Peanut mottle virus (PeMoV), Soybean mosaic virus (SMV), Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV), Tobacco ringspot virus (TRSV), Tobacco streak virus (TSV), Tomato ringspot virus (ToRSV), and Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) on soybean (Glycine max) in Iran. Totals of 3,110 random and 1,225 symptomatic leaf samples were collected during the summers of 1999 and 2000 in five provinces of Iran, where commercial soybean is grown, and tested by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) using specific polyclonal antibodies. Serological diagnoses were confirmed by electron microscopy and host range studies. The highest virus incidence among the surveyed provinces was recorded in Mazandaran (18.6%), followed by Golestan (15.7%), Khuzestan (14.2%), Ardabil (13.9%), and Lorestan (13.5%). Incidence of viruses in decreasing order was SMV (13.3%), TSWV (5.4%), TRSV (4.2%), TSV (4.1%), PEMV (2.9%), BYMV (2.2%), ToRSV (2.1%), AlMV (1.3%), BCMV (0.8%), and CMV (0.6%). Additionally, 1.5% of collected leaf samples had positive reactions in ELISA with antiserum to TMV, indicating the possible infection of soybeans in Iran with a Tobamovirus that is related serologically to TMV. Of 195 leaves from plants showing soybean pod set failure syndrome (PSF) in Mazandaran and Lorestan, only 14 (7.2%) samples had viral infection. No correlation was observed between PSF and presence of the 13 viruses tested, suggesting the involvement of other viruses or factors in this syndrome. To investigate the presence of seed-borne viruses, including SMV, TRSV, ToRSV, and TSV, 7,830 soybean seeds were collected randomly at harvesting time from the major sites of soybean seed production located in Mazandaran and Golestan provinces. According to ELISA analyses of germinated seedlings, 7.1 and 8.9% of the seed samples from Golestan and Mazandaran provinces, respectively, transmitted either SMV, TRSV, ToRSV, or TSV through seed. We also showed that SMV and other seed transmissible viruses, as well as TSWV, usually are the most prevalent viruses in soybean fields in Iran. In this survey, natural occurrence of AlMV, BCMV, BlCMV, BYMV, CMV, PEMV, PeMoV, and TSWV was reported for the first time on soybeans in Iran.


Plant Disease ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 100 (4) ◽  
pp. 696-703 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. D. Wells-Hansen ◽  
J. J. Polashock ◽  
N. Vorsa ◽  
B. E. L. Lockhart ◽  
P. S. McManus

Cranberry plants bearing disfigured, scarred fruit were reported by growers in the major cranberry-growing region of central Wisconsin in July 2012. Plants bearing scarred fruit have since been observed in Massachusetts and New Jersey. Three complementary methods provided evidence of Tobacco streak virus (TSV) in symptomatic plants: (i) leaves and scarred berries tested positive for TSV by double-antibody sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay; (ii) quasi-isometric particles approximately 33 nm in diameter were extracted from leaves of symptomatic plants and visualized using transmission electron microscopy; and (iii) coat protein gene sequence analysis revealed 94 to 99% nucleotide similarity with reference TSV sequences. In newer cultivars, 99% of uprights with scarred berries tested positive for TSV. In older cultivars, 31% of uprights with scarred berries tested positive for TSV and the remaining 69% of uprights with scarred berries tested positive for Blueberry shock virus. TSV overwintered in cranberry plants, and leaves, pollen, and fruit tested positive for TSV the year following symptom occurrence. Attempts to inoculate cranberry using infected pollen or sap as inoculum failed, but several herbaceous hosts tested TSV positive following mechanical inoculation. Phylogenetic analysis of the coat protein gene of 26 TSV isolates from various cultivars of cranberry in Wisconsin, New Jersey, and Massachusetts revealed diversity. This work provides information that will be useful in understanding the epidemiology of TSV in cranberry and in the development of management strategies.


Plant Disease ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 87 (11) ◽  
pp. 1396-1396 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Chander Rao ◽  
R. D. V. J. Prasada Rao ◽  
V. Manoj Kumar ◽  
Divya S. Raman ◽  
M. A. Raoof ◽  
...  

Safflower, Carthamus tinctorius L. (Asteraceae), is extensively cultivated in India, China, and other parts of Asia for edible oil, dyeing agent, and its medicinal value. In 2003, safflower entry (NARI-6) in the All-India Coordinated Research Project on Oilseeds (Safflower) grown in the experimental fields of M/s Syngenta India Ltd., Aurangabad (Maharashtra State, India) exhibited symptoms of veinal and leaf necrosis, necrotic streaks on the stem, necrosis of the terminal bud, and ultimately plant death. The disease was attributed to Tobacco streak virus (TSV) because sunflower growing adjacent to safflower showed similar symptoms caused by TSV (1). Mechanical inoculations of sap from symptomatic safflower leaves caused typical symptoms of TSV (local, irregular, necrotic rings, veinal necrosis, and systemic veinal necrosis) on Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp. cv. C-152 and Phaseolus vulgaris (L.) cv. Topcrop, and symptoms of local, necrotic lesions, veinal necrosis, and systemic necrosis of leaf and growing bud on Arachis hypogaea L. cv. JL-24. Sap-inoculated safflower cv. Manjeera showed chlorotic and necrotic local lesions followed by systemic leaf necrosis, leading to necrosis and death of the terminal bud. Safflower cvs. A-1, BIP-2, Co-1, and Bheema (10 plants of each cultivar) inoculated with sap from safflower plants showing typical TSV symptoms did not show any visible symptoms except stunting, but six to nine plants of each cultivar tested positive for TSV using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) tests. In direct antigen coating-ELISA, the virus reacted positively with antiserum produced to an isolate of TSV from peanut (2) and to antiserum to TSV (ATCC-PVAS 276 for Datura stramonium), but did not react to peanut bud necrosis tospovirus antiserum. Examination of leaf extracts using leaf-dips and immunosorbent electron microscopy with the antiserum of TSV-peanut isolate showed isometric particles resembling those in the genus Ilarvirus. To our knowledge, this is the first report of an isolate of Tobacco streak virus infecting safflower. References: (1) R. D. V. J. Prasada Rao et al. J. Oilseeds Res. 17:400, 2000. (2) A. S. Reddy et al. Plant Dis. 86:173, 2002.


Plant Disease ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 93 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hossain Massumi ◽  
Mehdi Shaabanian ◽  
Akbar Hosseini Pour ◽  
Jahangir Heydarnejad ◽  
Heshmetollah Rahimian

A survey was conducted to determine the incidence of Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV), Beet curly top virus (BCTV), Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV), Tomato chlorotic spot virus (TcSV), Potato virus Y (PVY), Potato virus S (PVS), Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV), Tomato ringspot virus (TRSV), Tomato aspermy virus (TAV), Arabis mosaic virus (ArMV), Tobacco streak virus (TSV), Tomato bushy stunt virus (TBSV), Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV), and Tomato mosaic virus (ToMV) on tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) in the major horticultural crop growing areas in the southeast and central regions of Iran. A total of 1,307 symptomatic leaf samples from fields and 603 samples from greenhouses were collected from January 2003 to July 2005 in five southeastern and central provinces of Iran. Samples of symptomatic plants were analyzed for virus infection by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) using specific polyclonal antibodies. ArMV and CMV were the most frequently found viruses, accounting for 25.6 and 23.4%, respectively, of the collected samples. BCTV, TSWV, TMV, PVY, ToMV, and TYLCV were detected in 6.1, 5.8, 5.6, 5, 4.8, and 1.6% of the samples, respectively. TBSV, TAV, TSV, PVS, and TRSV were not detected in any of the samples tested. Double and triple infections involving different combination of viruses were found in 13.9 and 1.7% of samples, respectively. This is the first report of PVY and ArMV as viruses naturally infecting tomato in Iran. Infection of tomato plants with PVY and ArMV was confirmed. Six out of 20 plant species belonging to six genera, growing in tomato fields or in the nearby areas, were found infected with TSWV, TMV, PVY, and CMV.


Plant Disease ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 86 (3) ◽  
pp. 330-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Michelutti ◽  
J. C. Tu ◽  
D. W. A. Hunt ◽  
D. Gagnier ◽  
T. R. Anderson ◽  
...  

In 2001, soybean fields were surveyed to determine the incidence of viruses because soybean aphids (Aphis glycines Matsamura), known to transmit Soybean mosaic virus (SMV) (2), were found in Ontario. In addition, bean leaf beetle (Cerotoma trifurcata Forster) was found during 2000 to be contaminated with Bean pod mottle virus (BPMV), although soybean plants, on which the beetles were feeding, tested negative (3). In the current survey, young soybean leaves were selected at random in July and August from 20 plants per site at growth stages R4 to R5 (1) from 415 sites representing the entire soybean-producing area in Ontario. Samples were maintained under cool conditions until received at the laboratory, where they were promptly processed. A combined sub-sample was obtained from the 20 plants per site. The 415 sub-samples were tested for SMV, BPMV, Tobacco ringspot virus (TRSV), and Tobacco streak virus (TSV) using polyclonal antibody kits for double-antibody sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (DAS-ELISA) (Agdia Inc., Elkart, IN). The ELISA plates were read with a plate reader (MRX, Dynex Technologies Inc., Chantilly, VA), and results were analyzed using ELISA software (Leading Edge Research, Merrickville, Ontario) and compared positive and negative controls (Agdia). TRSV was detected in one sample from Essex County and another sample from Middlesex County. SMV, BPMV, and TSV were not found in commercial soybean fields. However, SMV and BPMV were found in samples originating from two soybean breeding nurseries, one in Essex County and one in Kent County. Seedlings of soybean cv. Williams 82 were inoculated in the greenhouse with sap from leaf samples that tested positive for BPMV. Leaves of plants that developed mosaic symptoms were retested using ELISA and confirmed to be positive for BPMV. SMV and TRSV have been found previously in commercial soybean fields in Ontario (4). To our knowledge, this is the first report of BPMV on soybean plants in Canada. References: (1) W. R. Fehr et al. Merr. Crop. Sci. 11:929, 1971. (2) J. H. Hill et al. Plant Dis. 85:561, 2001. (3) A. U. Tenuta. Crop Pest. 5 (11):8, 2000. (4) J. C. Tu. Can. J. Plant Sci. 66:491, 1986.


Plant Disease ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 91 (12) ◽  
pp. 1585-1590 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Kalyani ◽  
A. S. Reddy ◽  
P. Lava Kumar ◽  
R. D. V. J. Prasada Rao ◽  
R. Aruna ◽  
...  

Stem necrosis disease caused by Tobacco streak virus (TSV), first recognized in 2000, has emerged as a potential threat to peanut (Arachis hypogaea) in southern states of India. The virus induces severe necrosis of shoots leading to death of the plant, and plants that survive are malformed, with severe reduction in pod yield. All the currently grown peanut cultivars in India are highly susceptible to the virus. Therefore, wild relatives of peanut were evaluated to identify potential sources of resistance to TSV infection. In all, 56 germplasm accessions from 20 wild Arachis spp. in four sections (Arachis, Erectoides, Procumbente, and Rhizomatosae), along with susceptible peanut cultivars (JL 24 and K 1375), were evaluated for resistance to TSV under greenhouse conditions using mechanical sap inoculations. Systemic virus infection, determined by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), in the test accessions ranged between 0 and 100%. Twenty-four accessions in section Arachis that had 0 to 35% systemically infected plants were retested, and systemic infection was not detected in eight of these accessions in repeated trials in the greenhouse. These are International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics groundnut (ICG) accession nos. 8139, 8195, 8200, 8203, 8205, and 11550 belonging to A. duranensis; ICG 8144 belonging to A. villosa; and ICG 13210 belonging to A. stenosperma. Even though the resistant accessions had 0 to 100% TSV infection in inoculated leaves, TSV was not detected in the subsequently emerged leaves. This is the first report of TSV resistance in Arachis spp. The eight TSV resistant accessions are cross compatible with A. hypogaea for utilization in breeding for stem necrosis disease resistance.


Plant Disease ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 91 (9) ◽  
pp. 1083-1088 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elwin L. Stewart ◽  
Xinshun Qu ◽  
Barrie E. Overton ◽  
Fred E. Gildow ◽  
Nancy G. Wenner ◽  
...  

Grapevines infected with Tomato ring spot virus (ToRSV) pose an economic risk for growers in the northeastern United States. This study describes a one-step real-time reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) SYBR Green assay for detecting ToRSV in grapevines. Two newly designed primer pairs based on the ToRSV coat protein gene sequence were evaluated for specificity and optimized for a SYBR Green assay. The primer pair ToRSV1f/1r yielded a 130-bp product with strong primer-dimer products, whereas the primer pair ToRSV2f/2r yielded a 330-bp product with weak primer dimer products. Real-time RT-PCR detected ToRSV in more naturally infected grapevines maintained in the greenhouse than did enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. The nucleotide sequences of the fragments amplified from grapevine growing in Pennsylvania using real-time PCR were divergent from previously published sequences.


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