scholarly journals Viral Satellite RNAs for the Prevention of Cucumber Mosaic Virus (CMV) Disease in Field-Grown Pepper and Melon Plants

Plant Disease ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 82 (12) ◽  
pp. 1298-1303 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. S. Montasser ◽  
M. E. Tousignant ◽  
J. M. Kaper
Keyword(s):  
Cucumber Mosaic Virus ◽  
Mosaic Virus ◽  
Plant Viruses ◽  
Yield Reduction ◽  
Satellite Rna ◽  
Time Intervals ◽  
Mild Strain ◽  
Challenge Inoculation ◽  
Satellite Rnas ◽  
Cmv Disease

A benign viral satellite RNA, in combination with a mild strain of cucumber mosaic virus (CMV-S), was used as a “vaccine” or “preinoculum” to demonstrate the feasibility of protecting pepper (Capsicum annuum cv. California Wonder) and melon (Cucurbita melo cv. Janus des Canaries) against two severe CMV strains, CMV-D and CMV-16, in the final 2 years of a 4-year pilot field and greenhouse experiment. In the field, healthy pepper and melon seedlings challenged with CMV-D and CMV-16 reduced yields by 33 to 60%; CMV-S caused only limited yield reduction in pepper and had no effect on the yield of melon. Different time intervals between preinoculation of pepper and melon seedlings with CMV-S and challenge inoculation with the severe CMV strains were tested. All plants challenged 3 weeks after vaccination showed nearly complete protection from subsequent infection by severe strains. The yield from preinoculated and challenged pepper plants was 80% that of untreated plants, while the yield from preinoculated and challenged melon plants was increased slightly over the untreated control plants. The use of this technology for biological control of plant viruses is discussed.

scholarly journals Satellite RNAs and Satellite Viruses

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 181-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Palukaitis
Keyword(s):  
Cucumber Mosaic Virus ◽  
Mosaic Virus ◽  
Rna Silencing ◽  
Noncoding Rnas ◽  
Turnip Crinkle Virus ◽  
Satellite Rna ◽  
Satellite Rnas ◽  
Satellite Viruses

Satellite RNAs and satellite viruses are extraviral components that can affect either the pathogenicity, the accumulation, or both of their associated viruses while themselves being dependent on the associated viruses as helper viruses for their infection. Most of these satellite RNAs are noncoding RNAs, and in many cases, have been shown to alter the interaction of their helper viruses with their hosts. In only a few cases have the functions of these satellite RNAs in such interactions been studied in detail. In particular, work on the satellite RNAs of Cucumber mosaic virus and Turnip crinkle virus have provided novel insights into RNAs functioning as noncoding RNAs. These effects are described and potential roles for satellite RNAs in the processes involved in symptom intensification or attenuation are discussed. In most cases, models describing these roles involve some aspect of RNA silencing or its suppression, either directly or indirectly involving the particular satellite RNA.

scholarly journals Evolution of Virulence in Natural Populations of the Satellite RNA of Cucumber mosaic virus

2000 ◽  
Vol 90 (5) ◽  
pp. 480-485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Escriu ◽  
Aurora Fraile ◽  
Fernando García-Arenal
Keyword(s):  
Cucumber Mosaic Virus ◽  
Mosaic Virus ◽  
Natural Populations ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Aphid Transmission ◽  
Satellite Rna ◽  
Virulence Analysis ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Evolution Of Virulence ◽  
Satellite Rnas

From 1986 to 1992, an epidemic of tomato necrosis caused by Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) plus CMV satellite RNAs (satRNAs) occurred in eastern Spain. From 1989 onward, the frequency of tomato necrosis di-minshed, and it almost completely disappeared after 1991. Analyses of plants infected with CMV and with CMV satRNA and of the phenotype (necrogenic or nonnecrogenic for tomato) induced by some CMV satRNA variants, showed that the disappearance of tomato necrosis was due to changes in the genetic composition of the satRNA population (i.e., to its evolution toward decreased virulence). Analysis of components of the fitness of satRNA variants, necrogenic or nonnecrogenic for tomato, showed that necrogenic and nonnecrogenic variants did not differ in infectivity or in their accumulation level in tomato and that they represented the same fraction of encapsidated RNA. Other fitness components were positively correlated with the greater virulence of necrogenic variants, in that they were favored in mixed infections with nonnecrogenic variants and were more effectively passed into CMV progeny than were nonnecrogenic variants. On the other hand, necrogenic CMV satRNA variants caused a more pronounced depression in the accumulation of CMV than did nonnecro-genic variants, which could affect the efficiency of aphid transmission. Thus, the evolution of virulence in the CMV satRNA population can be explained by trade-offs between factors that determine virulence and factors that affect transmission, as predicted by theoretical models on the evolution of virulence in parasites.

scholarly journals Characterization of cucumber mosaic virus and its satellite RNAs associated with tomato lethal necrosis in Serbia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivana Stanković ◽  
Ana Vučurović ◽  
Katarina Zečević ◽  
Branka Petrović ◽  
Dušan Nikolić ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cucumber Mosaic Virus ◽  
Mosaic Virus ◽  
Satellite Rnas

scholarly journals Cucumber mosaic virus satellite RNAs that induce similar symptoms in melon plants show large differences in fitness

2011 ◽  
Vol 92 (8) ◽  
pp. 1930-1938 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mónica Betancourt ◽  
Aurora Fraile ◽  
Fernando García-Arenal
Keyword(s):  
Cucumber Mosaic Virus ◽  
Mosaic Virus ◽  
Evolutionary Dynamics ◽  
Plant Biomass ◽  
Aphid Transmission ◽  
Helper Virus ◽  
Relative Fitness ◽  
Single Infection ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Satellite Rnas

Two groups of Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) satellite RNAs (satRNAs), necrogenic and non-necrogenic, can be differentiated according to the symptoms they cause in tomato plants, a host in which they also differ in fitness. In most other CMV hosts these CMV-satRNA cause similar symptoms. Here, we analyse whether they differ in traits determining their relative fitness in melon plants, in which the two groups of CMV-satRNAs cause similar symptoms. For this, ten necrogenic and ten non-necrogenic field satRNA genotypes were assayed with Fny-CMV as a helper virus. Neither type of CMV-satRNA modified Fny-CMV symptoms, and both types increased Fny-CMV virulence similarly, as measured by decreases in plant biomass and lifespan. Necrogenic and non-necrogenic satRNAs differed in their ability to multiply in melon tissues; necrogenic satRNAs accumulated to higher levels both in single infection and in competition with non-necrogenic satRNAs. Indeed, multiplication of some non-necrogenic satRNAs was undetectable. Transmission between hosts by aphids was less efficient for necrogenic satRNAs as a consequence of a more severe reduction of CMV accumulation in leaves. The effect of CMV accumulation on aphid transmission was not compensated for by differences in satRNA encapsidation efficiency or transmissibility to CMV progeny. Thus, necrogenic and non-necrogenic satRNAs differ in their relative fitness in melon, and trade-offs are apparent between the within-host and between-host components of satRNA fitness. Hence, CMV-satRNAs could have different evolutionary dynamics in CMV host-plant species in which they do not differ in pathogenicity.

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