Viruses infecting winter tomato crops in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan

2002 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 333 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Ali ◽  
S. Hassan

Malakand Agency is a unique production area in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan that is frost-free and in which tomato is grown as a winter crop. Tomato production in this area has been affected by virus-like diseases for the last 10 years. Tomato nurseries and fields at 11 locations in Malakand Agency were surveyed for tomato viruses during 1994–95. A total of 1071 samples from nurseries and 5083 samples from 142 fields were tested by indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). In nurseries, 3 viruses, Potato virus X (PVX), Potato virus Y (PVY), and Tomato mosaic virus (ToMV), were detected with an incidence range of 9.8–22.3, 0–36.6, and 16.5–51.3%, respectively. In the field, 5 viruses [Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV), PVX, PVY, ToMV, and Tomato yellow top virus (TYTV)] were frequently found with an incidence range of 0–13.3%, 2.6–16.7%, 0.4–13.8%, 26.1–41.3%, and 1.7–11.3%, respectively. All 5 viruses except TYTV were also detected from weed species in tomato fields or in the nearby vicinity. Of 12 commercial tomato varieties screened against CMV, PVX, PVY, and ToMV, 2 varieties (Florist and Forset) were resistant to 4 of the viruses including ToMV, for which the highest incidence was recorded in nurseries and field. These 2 varieties represent a previously undescribed and potentially useful source of resistance to the 4 inoculated viruses.

Plant Disease ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 89 (11) ◽  
pp. 1244-1244 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Soler ◽  
C. López ◽  
F. Nuez

The Andean region is home of important genetic diversity for the genus Lycopersicon. A survey of three asymptomatic populations of L. hirsutum, 17 of L. parviflorum, 188 of L. pimpinellifolium, and four cultivated populations of L. esculentum was made in nine departments of Ecuador. Samples were analyzed serologically for Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV), Tomato mosaic virus (ToMV), Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV), Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV), Potato virus Y (PVY), Potato virus X (PVX), Groundnut ringspot virus (GRSV), Tomato chlorosis spot virus (TCSV), and Pepino mosaic virus (PepMV). Samples positive as determined using double-antibody sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (absorbance values three times higher than negative controls) were analyzed using reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) with virus-specific primers. L pimpinellifolium was the only species of the four found to be infected with viruses. In the department of Manabí, ToMV was detected in 15 of 16 plants from one population, but only a single plant was infected with PepMV. In this department, PepMV was also detected in a single-plant population that corresponded to a volunteer plant found in the wild and TSWV was detected in another plant. In Esmeraldas and Guayas, two single-plant populations were found infected with PepMV and CMV, respectively. TMV, PVY, PVX, GRSV, and TCSV were not detected in this survey. Specific primers were selected for ToMV (To1/To2, genome coordinates 3498-3518/4902-4922, AJ417701), PepMV (Pe1/Pe2 genome coordinates 5030-5050/5913-5935, AJ606359), CMV (Cm1/Cm2 genome coordinates 541-561/1756-1779, D00356), and TSWV (Ts1/Ts2 genome coordinates 4078-4101/4738-4769, AF208498). Amplicons of the expected size were obtained using RT-PCR and then cloned and sequenced. DNA fragments of ToMV, PepMV, and TSWV showed identities greater than 99% with respective sequences in the GenBank database. The highest identity of the CMV DNA fragment was 92% with an isolate from Indonesia (AB042292). The occurrence of viruses such as CMV, ToMV, and TSWV in coastal Ecuador was not surprising. However, infected plants were not found among the samples collected in the departments of Azuay, Carchí, El Oro, Imbabura, Loja, and Pichincha in eastern Ecuador. L. chilense, L. chmielewskii, L. parviflorum, and L. peruvianum were previously reported as natural hosts of PepMV in central and southern Peru (2), and the virus was also detected in L. esculentum in Chile (1). Our results show that PepMV now occurs in wild L. pimpinellifolium populations along the Pacific coast of the South American continent and that it must have efficient means of transmission, although no specific vectors have as yet been identified for this virus. To our knowledge, this is the first report of PepMV in Ecuador and L. pimpinellifolium as a natural host of PepMV. References: (1) M. Muñoz et al. Fitopatología 37:67, 2002. (2) S. Soler et al. J. Phytopathol. 150:49, 2002.


Plant Disease ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 85 (4) ◽  
pp. 447-447 ◽  
Author(s):  
X. D. Li ◽  
Y. Q. Li ◽  
H. G. Wang

Flue-cured tobacco is an important crop in Henan Province, China. During the 2000 growing season, many tobacco plants showed various degrees of mottling, mosaic, vein clearing, or vein necrosis in most of the counties. Some plants even died at an early stage of growth. A survey was conducted in May-June in several tobacco-growing counties, and the incidence of symptomatic plants in individual fields ranged from 10 to 85%. The most widely planted tobacco varieties, NC89, K326, and K346, were highly susceptible. Symptomatic plants were collected from Jiaxian and Xiangcheng counties and samples were tested by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV), Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV), Potato virus Y (PVY), and Potato virus X (PVX). Of 65 samples tested, 21 were positive for only PVY, 16 positive for only CMV, one each was positive for only TMV or PVX. Nineteen samples were doubly infected with various combinations of these viruses and six were infected with combinations of three viruses. The causal agent(s) in the remaining sample could not be determined. In total, CMV was detected in 40 samples, PVY in 38, PVX in 10, and TMV in 7 samples. TMV and CMV used to be the most important viruses and PVY occurred only rarely. But PVY has become prevalent in Henan and in neighboring Shandong province (2). CMV and TMV were reported to be the most prevalent viruses in Shanxi (1) and Fujian Provinces (3). Because resistant varieties are not available, and mixed infections are more common, the results presented here explain why huge damage is occurring in tobacco crops in recent years. Some varieties are partially resistant to TMV and CMV but the varieties commonly grown are highly susceptible to PVY. Therefore, breeding for resistance to viruses, especially to PVY, is urgent to control the occurrence of tobacco viral diseases. References: (1) J. L. Cheng et al. Acta Tabacaria Sin. 4:43, 1998. (2) J. B. Wang et al. Chinese Tobacco Sci. 1:26, 1998. (3) L. H. Xie et al. Acta Tabacaria Sin. 2:25, 1994.


2019 ◽  
Vol 71 (6) ◽  
pp. 2142-2156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xue Yang ◽  
Yuwen Lu ◽  
Fang Wang ◽  
Ying Chen ◽  
Yanzhen Tian ◽  
...  

Abstract The chloroplast protein ferredoxin 1 (FD1), with roles in the chloroplast electron transport chain, is known to interact with the coat proteins (CPs) of Tomato mosaic virus and Cucumber mosaic virus. However, our understanding of the roles of FD1 in virus infection remains limited. Here, we report that the Potato virus X (PVX) p25 protein interacts with FD1, whose mRNA and protein levels are reduced by PVX infection or by transient expression of p25. Silencing of FD1 by Tobacco rattle virus-based virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) promoted the local and systemic infection of plants by PVX. Use of a drop-and-see (DANS) assay and callose staining revealed that the permeability of plasmodesmata (PDs) was increased in FD1-silenced plants together with a consistently reduced level of PD callose deposition. After FD1 silencing, quantitative reverse transcription–real-time PCR (qRT–PCR) analysis and LC-MS revealed these plants to have a low accumulation of the phytohormones abscisic acid (ABA) and salicylic acid (SA), which contributed to the decreased callose deposition at PDs. Overexpression of FD1 in transgenic plants manifested resistance to PVX infection, but the contents of ABA and SA, and the PD callose deposition were not increased in transgenic plants. Overexpression of FD1 interfered with the RNA silencing suppressor function of p25. These results demonstrate that interfering with FD1 function causes abnormal plant hormone-mediated antiviral processes and thus enhances PVX infection.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yueyue Li ◽  
Guanlin Tan ◽  
Long Xiao ◽  
Wenpeng Zhou ◽  
Pingxiu Lan ◽  
...  

During pepper and tomato production seasons in 2013–2017, large-scale virus disease surveys were conducted in different regions of Yunnan Province, China. A total of 1,267 pepper and tomato samples with various virus-like symptoms were collected and analyzed for virus infections through dot enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (dot-ELISA), polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and reverse-transcription (RT)-PCR. The detection results showed that 19 different viruses were present in about 50.9% of the assayed samples, and among these viruses, seven viruses were found in both pepper and tomato samples. Mixed infections with two to three of the 15 identified mixed infection types were found in the pepper samples and 10 identified mixed infection types were found in the tomato samples. Among the infected samples, Tomato spotted wilt orthotospovirus (TSWV) was the most common virus, with a detection rate of about 20.0% followed by Pepper vein yellows virus (PeVYV, 13.0%). This survey revealed for the first time that pepper is a natural host of Tobacco vein distorting virus (TVDV) worldwide and tomato is a natural host of Potato leafroll virus (PLRV) in China. PeVYV, Tobacco mild green mosaic virus (TMGMV) and Wild tomato mosaic virus (WTMV) were first time found in pepper and Tomato mottle mosaic virus (ToMMV) and Chilli veinal mottle virus (ChiVMV) were first time found in tomato in Yunnan Province. Finally, the virus incidences were higher in Kunming, Yuxi, Chuxiong, and Honghe region than other regions.


Plant Disease ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 93 (2) ◽  
pp. 198-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. A. Herrera-Vásquez ◽  
A. Alfaro-Fernández ◽  
M. C. Córdoba-Sellés ◽  
M. C. Cebrián ◽  
M. I. Font ◽  
...  

In February of 2008, in open-field-grown tomato crops (Solanum lycopersicum L.) from the central regions of Coclé, Herrera, Los Santos, and Veraguas of Panama, unusual disease symptoms, including deformation, necrosis, purple margins, interveinal yellowing, downward and upward curling of the leaflets alternately, necrotic lines in sepals and branches, fruits distorted with necrotic lines on the surface, and severe stunting, were observed. Tomato production was seriously damaged. To verify the identity of the disease, five symptomatic tomato plants from four fields of these regions were selected and analyzed by double-antibody sandwich (DAS)-ELISA using specific antibodies to Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV), Potato virus X (PVX), Potato virus Y (PVY), Tomato mosaic virus (ToMV), Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) (Loewe Biochemica, Sauerlach, Germany), and Pepino mosaic virus (PepMV) (DSMZ, Braunschweig, Germany). Total RNA was extracted from all plants and tested using reverse transcription (RT)-PCR with three pairs of specific primers: one pair designed to amplify 586 bp of the coat protein gene of CMV (CMV-F 5′-CCTCCGCGGATGCTAACTT-3′ and CMV-R 5′-CGGAATCAGACTGGGAGCA-3′) and the other two pairs to Tomato torrado virus (ToTV) that amplify 580 and 574 bp of the polyprotein (4) and coat protein (Vp23) (3) region of RNA2, respectively; and by dot-blot hybridization with a digoxygenin-labeled RNA probe complementary to the aforementioned polyprotein. The serological analysis for PVX, PVY, ToMV, TSWV, and PepMV were negative. ToTV was detected in all samples analyzed. Three of these samples were also positive for CMV by serological and molecular analysis. No differences in symptom expression were observed between plants infected with both viruses or with ToTV alone. RT-PCR products were purified and directly sequenced. BLAST analysis of one CMV sequence (GenBank Accession No. EU934036) showed 98% identity with a CMV sequence from Brazil (most closely related sequence) (GenBank Accession No. AY380812) and 97% with the Fny isolate (CMV subgroup I) (GenBank Accession No. U20668). Two ToTV sequences were obtained (GenBank Accession Nos. EU934037 and FJ357161) and showed 99% and 98% identities with the polyprotein and coat protein region of ToTV from Spain (GenBank Accession No. DQ388880), respectively. CMV is transmitted by aphids and is distributed worldwide with a wide host range (2), while ToTV is transmitted by whiteflies and has only been reported in tomato crops in Spain and Poland and recently on weeds in Spain (1). To our knowledge, this is the first time ToTV has been detected in Panama and the first report of CMV/ToTV mixed infection. References: (1) A. Alfaro-Fernández et al. Plant Dis. 92:831, 2008. (2) A. A. Brunt et al. Plant Viruses Online: Descriptions and Lists from the VIDE Database. Online Publication, 1996. (3) H. Pospieszny et al. Plant Dis. 91:1364, 2007. (4) M. Verbeek et al. Arch. Virol. 152:881, 2007.


Plant Disease ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 92 (5) ◽  
pp. 730-740 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bright Agindotan ◽  
Keith L. Perry

A macroarray was developed for the detection of 11 potato viruses and Potato spindle tuber viroid. The 11 viruses detected included those commonly found or tested for in North American potato seed certification programs: Alfalfa mosaic virus, Cucumber mosaic virus, Potato mop top virus, Potato leafroll virus, Potato latent virus, Potato virus A, Potato virus M, Potato virus S, Potato virus X, Potato virus Y, and Tobacco rattle virus. These viruses were detected using oligonucleotide 70-mer probes and labeled targets prepared by a random primed amplification procedure. Potato plants analyzed included those infected with 12 reference virus stocks and 36 field isolates. Results from the macroarray were entirely consistent with those obtained using a standard serological assay (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay). Four isolates of Potato spindle tuber viroid, in mixed infection with one or more viruses, also were detected in the array, although strong hybridization signals required amplification with viroid-specific primers in combination with anchored-random primers. In individual plants, up to four viruses, or a viroid plus two viruses, were detected, with no apparent competition or inhibition. Macroarrays are a cost-effective approach to the simultaneous diagnostic detection of multiple pathogens from infected plants.


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.


2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 469-477 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duc H. T. Le ◽  
Eduardo Méndez-López ◽  
Chao Wang ◽  
Ulrich Commandeur ◽  
Miguel A. Aranda ◽  
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