Identification of sugarcane grassy shoot-associated phytoplasma and one of its putative vectors in India |
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Authors: | Govind Pratap Rao Madhupriya Ajay Kumar Tiwari Shailendra Kumar Virendra Kumar Baranwal |
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Institution: | 1. Division of Plant Pathology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, 110012, India 2. Central Lab, Sugarcane Research Institute, Shahjahanpur, 242 001, Uttar Pradesh, India
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Abstract: | During a survey of sugarcane fields at the Sugarcane Research Institute, Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India, in August–September 2012, 6% to 28% incidence of sugarcane grassy shoot disease was observed in different fields of sugarcane variety CoS 7250. The association of phytoplasma with symptomatic sugarcane was confirmed by direct and nested PCR amplification of phytoplasma ribosomal gene. Four different delphacid leafhopper species, viz. Cofana unimaculata Signoret, Exitianus indicus (Distant), Sogatella kolophon Kirkaldy and Hishimonus phycitis (Dist.) were the prevalent feeding species of the Auchenorrhyncha fauna in the symptomatic sugarcane fields. Out of these four leafhopper species, only E. indicus tested positive for phytoplasma presence. Phylogenetic analysis suggested that the phytoplasmas from sugarcane and E. indicus in the present study were members of 16Sr XI. The confirmation of association of sugarcane grassy shoot phytoplasma in E. indicus population is important to understand the secondary spread of this phytoplasma in sugarcane plants. |
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