Natural infection of banana by a satellite-containing strain of cucumber mosaic virus: nucleotide sequence of the coat protein gene and the satellite RNA

Banana plants expressing mosaic symptoms, from the Jordan Valley in Israel, were shown to be infected by a satellite-RNA-containing strain of cucumber mosaic virus (CMV). Double-stranded RNA isolated from field-infected banana, without passage through another host, was used as a template for synthesis of cDNA. The cDNAs corresponding to the coat protein (CP) gene and to the satellite RNA were cloned after polymerase chain reaction amplification. The nucleotide sequences of the CP and the satellite cDNAs were determined. The CP gene and its 3′ flanking sequence had 98% similarity to the CMV Fny nucleotide sequence and the two strains differed in only one amino acid of the CP. The associated satellite had a sequence similarity ranging from 95% to 85.6% with other CMV satellites. Analysis of banana suckers differing in symptoms’ severity indicated a correlation between the presence of satellite and attenuation of symptoms.     

Occurrence of resistance‐breaking strains of Beet necrotic yellow vein virus in sugar beet in northwestern Europe and identification of a new variant of the viral pathogenicity factor P25

Rhizomania, one of the most devastating diseases in sugar beet production, is caused by Beet necrotic yellow vein virus (BNYVV) and transmitted by Polymyxa betae. Previously, disease control was possible by cultivation of sugar beet hybrids carrying a major resistance gene Rz1, which restricts virus accumulation in taproots and suppresses symptom development. Over the last few years, BNYVV strains with four RNA components have arisen, which are able to overcome Rz1‐mediated resistance. All strains described so far possess an A67V amino acid exchange within the RNA3‐encoded P25 pathogenicity factor. In this study, BNYVV was isolated from Rz1 plants, collected in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Germany, displaying patches of strong rhizomania symptoms. Sequencing of the coat protein and P25 gene of three isolates showed 100% nucleotide sequence identity and detected AYPR as the P25 tetrad amino acid composition. The ability of this strain to accumulate to higher levels in young plants of Rz1 resistant but not in Rz1 + Rz2 resistant genotypes was initially demonstrated in a greenhouse assay in natural field soil from the Netherlands. This strain was loaded into a virus‐free P. betae population and compared to reference strains. The AYPR strain retained its resistance‐breaking ability in the Rz1 genotypes and displayed replication at a higher rate compared to the Rz1‐resistance‐breaking P type. The strain origin is unclear and it remains speculative whether the occurrence at different geographic locations is the result of independent selection or displacement of infested soil.     

抗苯并咪唑的小麦赤霉病菌β-tubulin基因序列分析与特性研究

 本研究用真菌U-微管蛋白基因的通用寡聚核苷酸引物B1和B3,扩增并克隆了一段821 bp的小麦赤霉病菌Fusarium graminearum的U-微管蛋白基因片段,并进行了序列测定。根据该序列设计了F.graminearum U-微管蛋白基因的特异性测序引物,测定了赤霉病菌对多菌灵不同抗感菌株的U-微管蛋白基因核苷酸序列,结果表明不同F.graminearum菌株的U-微管蛋白的165,198,200和257位氨基酸未发生突变,在克隆的片段内也未发现核苷酸突变引起的氨基酸改变。表明该菌对多菌灵产生抗性的分子机制与目前已知的其它真菌有所不同,有待进一步研究。     

Amino Acid 129 of Cucumber mosaic virus Coat Protein Determines Local Symptom Expression and Systemic Movement in Tetragonia expansa, Momordica charantia and Physalis floridana

Local symptom expression and systemic movement of Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) in Tetragonia expansa, Momordica charantia and Physalis floridana were mapped to the amino acid at position 129 of CMV coat protein (CP), using pseudorecombinants, chimeric RNAs, a site-directed mutant of RNA 3 and four strains of CMV : pepo-, SO-, MY17- and Y-CMV. Local and systemic symptoms caused by three strains, pepo-, SO- and MY17-CMV, and those by Y-CMV differed in the three host species. The three strains expressed local chlorotic spots at 24°C and systemic chlorotic spots and ringspots at 36°C, whereas Y-CMV developed local necrotic spots at 24°C but no systemic symptoms at 36°C in T. expansa. In M. charantia the three strains caused systemic chlorotic spots, whereas Y-CMV caused local necrotic spots. The three caused systemic mosaic and Y-CMV systemic necrosis in P. floridana. With pseudorecombinants combined with pepo- and Y-CMV RNAs, CMV RNA 3 was responsible for symptom expression and systemic infection. Inoculation with Y-CMV RNA 1, RNA 2 and chimeric RNA 3s exchanged CP gene fragments between pepo- and Y-CMV showed that NruI-XhoI fragment of CP was essential for symptom expression. Comparative analysis of the NruI-XhoI fragments revealed that only the amino acid at position 129 was common among the three strains but different from that of Y-CMV. Inoculation with a point mutant constructed by substituting one nucleotide resulting in an amino acid change from Ser to Pro at position 129 in Y-CMV CP verified the previous experiments. These results indicate that the amino acid at position 129 of CMV CP is the determinant for local symptom expression and systemic movement in the three host species. CMV CP containing Ser at position 129 may induce resistant responses in these plants. Received 29 June 2001/ Accepted in revised form 28 August 2001     

Helper component mutations in nonconserved residues associated with aphid transmission efficiency of a pepper isolate of potato virus y

ABSTRACT The aphid transmission properties of a pepper isolate of potato virus Y belonging to the pathotype 1-2 (PVY 1-2) have been characterized. PVY 1-2 was not transmitted in plant-to-plant experiments, although purified virus particles were efficiently transmitted when supplemented with heterologous helper component (HC) of the transmissible isolate PVY 0 AT through membrane acquisition assays, indicating that its coat protein was functional in transmission. Additionally, virions of PVY 1-2 were able to bind to different HCs in in vitro binding assays. Analysis of the sequence of the PVY 1-2 HC gene and comparison with that of PVY 0 AT revealed 19 nucleotide differences, but only 2 resulted in amino acid changes, one of which induced a change of charge. Neither of these two amino acid changes occurred within the cysteine-rich domain, nor did they coincide with conserved motifs of the HC protein known to be involved in aphid transmission and which are present in all known potyvi-ruses. However, both changes are located in positions highly conserved among PVY strains. The possible role of both mutations on the activity of the PVY 1-2 HC in aphid transmission is discussed.     

Genetic Structure of the Population of Pepino mosaic virus Infecting Tomato Crops in Spain

ABSTRACT The population structure of Pepino mosaic virus (PepMV), which has caused severe epidemics in tomato in Spain since 2000, was analyzed. Isolates were characterized by the nucleotide sequence of the triple gene block and coat protein gene and, for a subset of isolates, a part of the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase gene. The full-length sequence of the genomic RNA of a Solanum muricatum isolate from Peru also was determined. In spite of high symptom diversity, the Spanish population of PepMV mostly comprised highly similar isolates belonging to the strain reported in Europe (European tomato strain), which has been the most prevalent genotype in Spain. The Spanish PepMV population was not structured spatially or temporally. Also, isolates highly similar to those from nontomato hosts from Peru (Peruvian strain) or to isolate US2 from the United States (US2 strain) were detected at lower frequency relative to the European strain. These two strains were detected in peninsular Spain only in 2004, but the Peruvian strain has been detected in the Canary Islands since 2000. These results suggest that PepMV was introduced into Spain more than once. Isolates from the Peruvian and US2 strains always were found in mixed infections with the European tomato strain, and interstrain recombinants were detected. The presence of different strains of the virus, and of recombinant isolates, should be considered for the development of control strategies based on genetic resistance.     

棉铃虫para同源基因III-IV接头DNA片段序列分析

利用反转录 PCR技术 ,用一对特异性寡核苷酸引物 ,分离获得棉铃虫 para同源基因 III- IV接头约30 0 bp DNA片段 ,发现在 Bao D- R和 Bao D- S品系间存在 4个核苷酸差异 ,但在推导的氨基酸组成上没有差别。对比分析表明 ,分离获得的棉铃虫 III- IV接头氨基酸组成与烟芽夜蛾 hscp片段同一区域有 98.1%的氨基酸相同 ,与德国蜚蠊 CSMA的氨基酸有 93.5%相同 ,与果蝇 para基因有 88.9%的氨基酸相同     

Red clover mottle virus from Ukraine is an isolate of RCMV strain S

The relationship between red clover mottle virus (RCMV) isolated in the Ukraine (designated RCMV-Uk) and well-characterised strains from Sweden has been investigated. Nucleic acid hybridisation indicate that both RNAs from RCMV-Uk are highly homologous to their counterparts from RCMV strain S, a conclusion supported by protein sequence analysis of the two viral capsid proteins. Nucleic acid sequence analysis of a portion of RCMV-Uk RNA2 confirmed the high degree of similarity between RCMV-Uk and RCMV strain S. This information suggests that RCMV-Uk should be considered an isolate of RCMV strain S.     

辽中地区西瓜花叶病病原的分子鉴定

 利用ELISA和RT-PCR方法对采自我国辽中地区的西瓜花叶病样品进行检测,表明其病原为黄瓜绿斑驳花叶病毒(Cucumber green mottle mosaic virus,CGMMV)。将此分离物(CGMMV-Wcn)的外壳蛋白基因克隆后进行序列分析,结果表明其cp基因由486个碱基组成,编码161个氨基酸,与已报道的其它分离物一致;CGMMV-Wcn所致症状与西瓜株系(CGMMV-W)相同,且二者cp基因的氨基酸序列完全一致,因此该分离物应为CGMMV-W。     

抗氰戊菊酯棉铃虫细胞色素P450 CYP6B7基因的克隆及分析

以抗氰戊菊酯棉铃虫六龄幼虫中肠组织总RNA为模板,采用特异性引物,通过对反转录-聚合酶链式反应(RT-PCR)的条件进行不断探索和优化,成功克隆出全长为1 557 bp的基因片段(GenBank登录号DQ497428)。该片段包括一个完整的开放阅读框架(1 515 bp)及5'端的42个碱基,编码504个氨基酸残基。与国外报道的细胞色素P450 CYP6B7基因(GenBank登录号AF031468)的核苷酸、氨基酸同源性分别为97.75%和98.81%,为CYP6B7的等位基因。Northern杂交分析表明,抗性品系棉铃虫中肠组织中CYP6B7 mRNA的表达量明显高于敏感品系的,初步表明CYP6B7在棉铃虫对氰戊菊酯的抗药性中起着重要作用。     

烟草花叶病毒丁香分离物的分离与鉴定

 从表现花叶症状的丁香病株上获得一病毒分离物,其在电镜下为约300 nm×18nm的杆状粒子;电泳分析表明感病组织中ds RNA大约为6.4kbp,而其外壳蛋白分子量约为17.6k Da。以上实验结果初步将该病毒分离物鉴定为烟草花叶病毒属(Tobamovirus)。根据该属病毒复制酶基因序列设计通用引物,进行RT-PCR检测,扩增出约1000 bp的预期特异片段(Gen Bank AY566703)。将PCR产物克隆后测序,序列分析表明,与从蚕豆中分离的TMV-B株系序列(Gen Bank AJ011933.1)同源性为99.90%。根据烟草花叶病毒(Tobacco mosaic virus,TMV)的RNA CP基因序列设计引物,进行RT-PCR,扩增出约800 bp的预期特异片段(Gen Bank AY56672),序列分析表明,与TMV-B株系序列(Gen Bank AJ011933.1)同源性达99%,上述实验结果表明,该病毒分离物为TMV。由于该分离物与TMV-B在指示植物上的症状存在明显差异,所以,作者把该分离物暂命名为TMV-S。     

Bt菌株FB的生物学特性及其cry、vip基因型鉴定

菌株FB是1株对小菜蛾Plutella xylostella幼虫具有高毒力的苏云金芽胞杆菌Bacillus thuringiensis （Bt）。本研究通过扫描电子显微镜、大质粒电泳、总蛋白SDS-PAGE及菌株生长特征观察的方式研究了菌株FB特征,克隆得到了基因cry1Ia、cry1Ea、cry1Ab、cry2Ab和vip3Aa全长,依据全基因组测序结果得到了1个cry8基因部分片段,首次在Bt菌株中同时发现基因cry1类和cry8类,这五种基因推导的氨基酸序列与已知基因序列相比,最高相似性分别为99%、98%、99%、100%、99%,而cry8半长基因与已知基因仅为63%。生测结果表明,蛋白Cry1Ia、Cry1Ea和Cry1Ab对小菜蛾幼虫具有较高杀虫活性。     

Biological, serological, and molecular variabilities of clover yellow vein virus

ABSTRACT A comparative study was made on the host reactions, serological properties, and nucleotide sequences of the coat protein (CP) gene of 10 clover yellow vein virus (C1YVV) isolates and one bean yellow mosaic virus (BYMV) isolate collected from different host plant species and locations in Japan. Two strains of C1YVV isolates, grouped on the basis of host reactions on Chenopodium amaranticolor, C. quinoa, Nicotianaclevelandii, N. benthamiana, Vicia faba, and Trifolium repens, corresponded to two serotypes determined by double-antibody sandwich- and triple-antibody sandwich-enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay using three polyclonal and nine monoclonal antibodies. These results were also confirmed by nucleotide sequence analysis of the CP gene. The CP gene of C1YVV isolates of strain 1, including the Australian isolate C1YVV-B, had 93 to 98% nucleotide identities and 97 to 99.6% amino acid identities. The CP of C1YVV isolates of strain 2, including the New Zealand isolate C1YVV-NZ, had 92 to 98% nucleotide identities and 95 to 98% amino acid identities. The nucleotide identities and the amino acid identities between the two C1YVV strains were 82 to 84%, and 90 to 94%, respectively. When compared with the CP sequences of 12 C1YVV isolates, the CP sequence of the BYMV isolate had 71 to 73% nucleotide identity and 73 to 77% amino acid identity. Amino acid sequence differences among C1YVV isolates from strains 1 and 2 were located mostly at the N-terminal regions of the CP. Our results indicated that the C1YVV isolates studied could be separated into two strains on the basis of host reactions, serology, and the nucleotide sequence of the CP gene.     

甘蔗黄叶病毒复制酶基因的克隆及序列分析

 The gene of RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRP) was cloned by RT-PCR from Sugarcane yellow leaf virus-Fuzhou isolate (CHN-FJ1) and then cloned into pMD18-T vector. The sequence showed that the fragment comprised 1 212 nucleotides including part gene of ORF1 and ORF2. The ORF2 was involved the RdRP gene consisted of 995 nucleotides and encoded putative protein of 331 amino acids. Compared the nucleo-tide sequence and encoded putative protein of CHN-FJ1 with the other isolates from different countries, they shared the homology above 92.0%. Phylogenetic tree suggested that the sixteen isolates were classified into four types according to the amino acid sequence of the RdRP. One of the groups contained CHN-FJ1 and the other isolates from China, American, Brazil, Australia and Colombia;however, there was the closest relation between CHN-FJ1 and BRA-YL1 isolate from Brazil.     

Identification of a novel point mutation in the <Emphasis Type="Italic">β</Emphasis>-tubulin gene of <Emphasis Type="Italic">Botrytis cinerea</Emphasis> and detection of benzimidazole resistance by a diagnostic PCR-RFLP assay

The molecular basis of resistance to benzimidazole fungicides with laboratory and field mutant isolates of Botrytis cinerea was investigated. After chemical mutagenesis with N-methyl-N-nitrosogouanidine (NMNG) two different benzimidazole-resistant phenotypes were isolated on media containing carbendazim or a mixture of carbendazim and diethofencarb. The mutant isolates from the fungicide-mixture-containing medium were moderately resistant to carbendazim with wild-type tolerance to diethofencarb while mutant isolates from carbendazim-containing medium were highly resistant to carbendazim but sensitive to diethofencarb. The studied field isolates were highly resistant to benzimidazoles and sensitive to diethofencarb. Study of fitness characteristics of benzimidazole highly-resistant isolates showed that the resistance mutation(s) had no apparent effect on fitness-determining parameters. Contrary to this, the moderately benzimidazole-resistant strains, with no increased diethofencarb sensitivity, had a significant reduction in certain ecological fitness-determining characteristics. Analysis of the sequence of the β-tubulin gene revealed two amino acid replacements in the highly benzimidazole-resistant mutants compared to that of the wild-type parent strain. One was the glutamic acid (GAG) to alanine (GCG) change at position 198 (E198A), identified in both laboratory and field highly benzimidazole-resistant isolates, a mutation previously implicated in benzimidazole resistance. The second was a novel benzimidazole resistance mutation of glutamic acid (GAG) to glycine (GGG) substitution at the same position 198 (E198G), identified in a highly benzimidazole-resistant laboratory mutant strain. Molecular analysis of the moderately benzimidazole-resistant strains revealed no mutations at the β-tubulin gene. A novel diagnostic PCR-RFLP assay utilising a BsaI restriction site present in the benzimidazole-sensitive (E198) but absent in both resistant genotypes (E198G and E198A) was developed for the detection of both amino acid replacements at the β-tubulin gene.     

Rapid Diagnosis of Pseudomonas syringae pv. papulans, the Causal Agent of Blister Spot of Apple, by Polymerase Chain Reaction Using Specifically Designed hrpL Gene Primers

ABSTRACT The identification and detection of Pseudomonas syringae pv. papulans, the causal agent of blister spot of apple, on apple leaves and fruit was achieved by polymerase chain reaction amplification of a specific DNA fragment of the hrpL sequence. The consensus primers hrpL(1) and hrpL(2) were designed based on the alignment of pseudomonad hrpL gene sequences available in nucleic acid data banks. This primer set produced a 631-bp amplicon from 37 of the 57 pseudomonads strains tested. These strains belonged to genomospecies 1 and 2, as described by Gardan et al. (8). The amplicon obtained from 30 of these strains was digested with eight restriction enzymes. Three different restriction patterns were produced from strains belonging to genomospecies 1, resulting in A1 and A2 patterns, while strains belonging to genomospecies 2 were characterized by a B pattern. Patterns A1 and A2 differed at only two sites, a Bsp 143I site located at nucleotide 360 and a MseI site located at nucleotides 22-24. Group A2 consisted solely of P. syringae pv. papulans strains. The hrpL gene in P. syringae pv. papulans strain CFBP3323 was sequenced. Two primer sets, Pap1/Pap2 and Pap1/Pap3, were designed and tested for specificity to P. syringae pv. papulans. These primers amplified expected fragments of 242 and 303 bp, respectively. Pap1/Pap2 amplified a fragment only with P. syringae pv. papulans DNA, while Pap1/Pap3 amplified all tested strains belonging to genomospecies 1. A diagnostic procedure using the Pap1/Pap2 primer set was successful for the detection of P. syringae pv. papulans in diseased fruit and artificially inoculated leaves.