Comparative whitefly transmission of Tomato chlorosis virus and Tomato infectious chlorosis virus from single or mixed infections

Tomato chlorosis virus (ToCV) and Tomato infectious chlorosis virus (TICV) are two criniviruses that are emerging worldwide, and induce similar yellowing diseases in tomato crops. While TICV is transmitted only by Trialeurodes vaporariorum , ToCV is transmitted by three whitefly species in two genera Trialeurodes vaporariorum , T. abutilonea and Bemisia tabaci . The efficiency of transmission by T. vaporariorum from plants infected by one virus or by both was compared, and the probability of virus transmission by a single whitefly was derived from group testing experiments. The estimated transmission probabilities ranged from 0·01 to 0·13, and were not significantly different between ToCV and TICV, or between single and mixed infections. Experiments using B. tabaci as a vector and source plants infected by TICV and ToCV did not reveal any functional trans-complementation for transmission of TICV by ToCV, suggesting that if this phenomenon occurs in nature, it is at a very low frequency. Possible reasons why TICV did not establish in southern France while ToCV is now endemic are discussed.     

Tomato chlorosis virus: a new whitefly-transmitted, Phloem-limited, bipartite closterovirus of tomato

ABSTRACT Tomato chlorosis virus (ToCV) is the second whitefly-transmitted, phloem-limited, bipartite closterovirus described infecting tomato. ToCV is distinct from tomato infectious chlorosis virus (TICV), based on lack of serological and nucleic acid cross-reactions and differences in vector specificity. TICV is transmitted only by the greenhouse whitefly (Trialeurodes vaporariorum), whereas ToCV is transmitted by the greenhouse whitefly, the banded-wing whitefly (T. abutilonea), and Bemisia tabaci biotypes A and B (B. argentifolii). Double-stranded (ds) RNA analyses of ToCV show two prominent dsRNAs of approximately 7,800 and 8,200 bp, with several small dsRNAs. Digoxigenin-11-UTP-labeled riboprobes derived from cDNA clones representing portions of RNAs 1 and 2 were used in Northern blot hybridizations to detect two large nonhomologous dsRNAs and a subset of smaller dsRNAs. These probes were used in dot blot hybridizations to detect ToCV in infected tomato. Inclusion bodies and cytoplasmic vesicles were consistently observed in phloem tissues of ToCV-infected Nicotiana clevelandii. Computer-assisted sequence analysis showed significant homology between ToCV clones that hybridize specifically with RNAs 1 and 2 and the lettuce infectious yellows virus methyltransferase of RNA 1 and the HSP70 heat shock protein homolog of RNA 2, respectively. Thus, ToCV is another member of the growing subgroup of bipartite closteroviruses transmitted by whiteflies.     

Occurrence of Tomato infectious chlorosis virus (TICV) in Jordan

A new disease on tomato ( Lycopersicon esculentum L.) caused by Tomato infectious chlorosis virus (TICV) has been detected for the first time in Jordan. Disease symptoms consisted of interveinal yellowing areas in older leaves followed by generalized yellowing. Using specific primers, Tomato infectious chlorosis virus was detected in symptomatic plants by RT-PCR. The amplified fragment (416 bp) was cloned and sequenced. Results of sequence analysis showed that the Jordanian isolate of TICV shared high nucleotide similarity (> 98%) with two other isolates from Japan and France. The distribution of TICV has been investigated in four regions in the Jordan Valley by non-radioactive dot blot hybridization. Data from the study showed high incidence of the disease in all surveyed regions. In addition, the expected size of the coat protein gene of TICV could be amplified from two symptomatic weeds species, Chenopodium album and Chenopodium murale , indicating that these weeds are natural hosts for the virus.     

番茄褪绿病毒与番茄黄化曲叶病毒复合侵染对番茄褪绿病毒传播的影响

番茄褪绿病毒Tomato chlorosis virus(ToCV)是一种由烟粉虱Bemisia tabaci传播的正义单链RNA病毒,在田间常与番茄黄化曲叶病毒Tomato yellow leaf curl virus(TYLCV)复合侵染而造成番茄生产上重大的经济损失。为了明确ToCV与TYLCV的复合侵染对烟粉虱传播ToCV所造成的影响,本文采用RT-PCR以及qRT-PCR检测了复合侵染的番茄对烟粉虱获取和传播ToCV的影响。研究表明,烟粉虱取食复合侵染的番茄后对ToCV的传播效率显著提高,仅25头烟粉虱的传毒率即可达到100%,ToCV在烟粉虱以及番茄体内的累积量均显著提高。说明这种复合侵染促进了烟粉虱对ToCV的传播,在田间应当及时防控烟粉虱,警惕病毒与烟粉虱的蔓延。     

番茄褪绿病毒侵染黄瓜的首次报道

番茄褪绿病毒Tomato chlorosis virus(ToCV)是严重危害世界经济作物的一种病毒,寄主范围广泛。田间调查发现黄瓜Cucumis sativus表现出叶片黄化、脉间褪绿的疑似番茄褪绿病毒感病症状,同时叶片背面聚集了大量烟粉虱。采用RT-PCR方法对样品叶片和烟粉虱进行检测,ToCV感染率为65%,且发病叶片上烟粉虱携带ToCV。为进一步确定黄瓜是否为番茄褪绿病毒的新寄主,室内利用农杆菌侵染性克隆接种健康黄瓜,结果显示:接种30 d的黄瓜新生叶片出现褪绿症状。采用ToCV HSP70基因的引物对田间黄瓜叶片、烟粉虱和室内黄瓜新生叶片进行RT-PCR,扩增出约450 bp的条带,在NCBI上BLAST显示与KC887999.1的同源性最高,为99%。这些数据表明黄瓜是番茄褪绿病毒的寄主。这是ToCV感染黄瓜的首次报道。     

侵染广东番茄的番茄褪绿病毒分子鉴定

在广东番茄上发现一种新病害,病株表现为叶片褪绿,叶脉颜色变深及叶片增厚等症状。利用番茄褪绿病毒Tomato chlorosis virus(ToCV)HSP70基因的两对特异引物对番茄病样进行RT-PCR检测,结果表明,从所采集的6份病样中均扩增到预期大小的DNA特异片段。对其中1份样品的扩增片段进行克隆与序列分析,结果表明,扩增片段包括1个长度为1 665个核苷酸的完整病毒基因,其核苷酸序列与已报道的ToCV HSP70基因有较高的同源性,表明广东番茄受到了ToCV的侵染。但ToCV广东番茄分离物的HSP70序列与国内外已报道的各分离物的同源性均低于82%,存在较大差异,其中与塞浦路斯tomato、约旦JU_20分离物的同源性最高,为81.8%。这是ToCV在广东发生的首次报道,也是该病毒HSP70基因序列存在显著差异分离物的首次发现。     

Tomato infectious chlorosis virus causes leaf yellowing and reddening of tomato in Italy

Since autumn 2000, severe and widespread chlorosis, sometimes associated with redness, has been observed in greenhouse tomatoes in different regions of Italy. A total of 104 samples were analyzed for tomato infectious chlorosis virus (TICV), by a one-step RT-PCR procedure. In some areas of central Italy and Sardinia, the symptom was consistently correlated with the presence of TICV. The RT-PCR procedure enabled rapid and reliable detection of TICV from field samples. Sequence analysis of the amplified 501-bp fragment, part of the HSP70 coding region, revealed an identity of 99% with the TICV sequence in the GenBank database. A digoxigenin-labeled DNA probe was also produced and successfully tested in dot blot assays. This is the first report of TICV causing epidemics in Europe.     

Occurrence and Diagnosis of Tomato chlorosis virus in Portugal

Tomato chlorosis virus (ToCV), a new whitefly-transmitted and phloem-limited Crinivirus infecting tomatoes in Europe, is reported for the first time in Portugal. Tomato plants with symptoms of interveinal chlorosis, collected during autumn 1998 and summer and autumn 1999 in Algarve, southern Portugal, were positive in RT-PCR assays using ToCV-specific primers. The amplified 439bp fragment was sequenced and showed 99% homology with the ToCV sequence in the GenBank database. A digoxigenin–DNA probe was produced and tested in dot-blot with total RNAs extracted from tomato samples. Both the RT-PCR and dot-blot hybridisation procedures enabled rapid and reliable detection of ToCV from field samples.     

河北省番茄黄化曲叶病毒和番茄褪绿病毒复合侵染及分布

 番茄黄化曲叶病毒(Tomato yellow leaf curl virus, TYLCV) 及番茄褪绿病毒(Tomato chlorosis virus, ToCV)是危害番茄的主要病毒。2016~2017年,在河北省18个番茄主产区调查番茄病毒病危害情况,采集262份植株矮化、叶片黄化、褪绿、卷曲的番茄样品,利用分子生物学技术对病原进行鉴定。结果表明:2016~2017年河北省番茄病毒病发生普遍,所检样品中TYLCV的侵染率为68.66%,其中与ToCV复合侵染率为19.5%;除栾城、滦南、乐亭、永年4地样品暂未检测到ToCV外,其他14个采样点的样品均检测到ToCV,侵染率为19.5%,且全部表现为与TYLCV复合侵染,河北省番茄主产区暂未发现ToCV单独侵染的样品。     

陕西杨凌番茄褪绿病毒的分子检测

近年来在陕西番茄生产区出现了一种新病害,病株表现为叶片褪绿,叶脉颜色变深及叶片增厚,果实变小发白,严重影响番茄产量及经济效益,2016年发病极为严重,部分产区甚至绝收。该病疑似由番茄褪绿病毒Tomato chlorosis virus(ToCV)引起。利用ToCV特异引物对感病番茄样品进行RT-PCR检测,结果从所采集的4份病样中均检测到ToCV预期大小的特异片段。对ToCV外壳蛋白CP基因和类热激蛋白HSP70h基因进行克隆与序列分析,ToCV-YL1 CP基因774个核苷酸序列与已报道的ToCVCP基因有较高的一致性,与山东青岛和山西晋中分离物同源性为100%。ToCV-YL1 HSP70h基因1 665个核苷酸序列与已报道的ToCV HSP70h基因有较高的同源性,与中国、韩国、日本、美国、希腊分离物同源性达到99%以上。研究表明ToCV已传播至陕西地区。     

Synergistic Interaction Between Tomato chlorosis virus and Tomato spotted wilt virus Results in Breakdown of Resistance in Tomato

ABSTRACT Multiple viral infections frequently are found in single plants of cultivated and wild hosts in nature, with unpredictable pathological consequences. Synergistic reactions were observed in mixed infections in tomato plants doubly infected with the positive-sense and phloem-limited single-stranded RNA (ssRNA) crinivirus Tomato chlorosis virus (ToCV) and the negative-sense ssRNA tospovirus Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV). Synergism in a tomato cultivar susceptible to both viruses resulted in a rapid death of plants. A pronounced enhancement of ToCV accumulation mediated by TSWV co-infection was observed with no evident egress of ToCV from phloem tissues. No consistent alteration of TSWV accumulation was detected. More remarkable was the synergism observed in tomato cultivars which carry the Sw-5 resistance gene, which are resistant to TSWV. Pre-infection with ToCV resulted in susceptibility to TSWV, whereas co-inoculations did not. This suggested that a threshold level or a time lapse is needed for ToCV to interfere or downregulate the defense response in the TSWV-resistant plants.     

Potato, an experimental and natural host of the crinivirus Tomato chlorosis virus

Tomato chlorosis virus (ToCV, genus Crinivirus, family Closteroviridae) causes yellowing of tomatoes in many countries worldwide. Symptoms of ToCV infections in tomatoes include inter-veinal yellow chlorotic areas that develop first on lower leaves and then advance towards the upper part of the plant. ToCV is transmitted in nature by the whiteflies Bemisia tabaci, Trialeurodes vaporariorum, and Trialeurodes abutilonea in a semi-persistent manner. In the summer of 2006, a few potato (Solanum tuberosum) volunteer plants heavily infested with the whitefly B. tabaci were found growing within a pepper crop in the province of Málaga, southern Spain. Leaf samples from volunteer plants were tested for the presence of ToCV by molecular hybridization and RT-PCR, and were shown to be infected. Furthermore, potato plants were readily infected by ToCV after experimental transmission using B. tabaci biotype Q as vector. ToCV was also detected in the tubers from infected plants that subsequently produced infected plants. Potato also served as virus source for tomato infection via B. tabaci transmission.     

番茄黄化曲叶病毒与番茄褪绿病毒复合侵染对番茄黄化曲叶病毒传播的影响

番茄黄化曲叶病毒(tomato yellow leaf curl virus, TYLCV)是一种由烟粉虱传播的单链环状DNA病毒, 在田间可与多种病毒发生复合侵染, 如番茄褪绿病毒(tomato chlorosis virus, ToCV)等?本文对比了TYLCV单独侵染和TYLCV与ToCV复合侵染对烟粉虱获取和传播TYLCV的影响?结果表明, 与取食TYLCV单独侵染的番茄相比, 取食复合侵染番茄的烟粉虱对TYLCV的传毒率显著提高, 且番茄植株和烟粉虱体内TYLCV的病毒积累量也显著提高?试验结果说明复合侵染会提高烟粉虱的传毒率, 促进TYLCV的发生与流行?     

Tomato infectious chlorosis virus — a new clostero-like virus transmitted byTrialeurodes vaporariorum

A previously undescribed virus disease of tomato, other crops and weed hosts was found in California. Affected tomato plants exhibited interveinal yellowing, necrosis and severe yield losses. Leaf dips and purified preparations contained closterovirus-like long flexuous, filamentous particles approximately 12×850–900 nm. The virus, designated as tomato infectious chlorosis virus (TICV), is transmitted in a semipersistent manner by the greenhouse whitefly,Trialeurodes vaporariorum. The host range of the virus is moderate (26 species in 8 plant families) but includes some important crops and ornamental species including tomato, (Lycopersicon esculentum), tomatillo (Physalis ixocarpa), potato (Solanum tuberosum), artichoke (Cynara scolymus), lettuce (Lactuca sativa) and petunia (Petunia hybrida). The virus has been found in a number of different locations in California and has a number of potential vehicles of movement including greenhouse grown ornamentals, tomato transplants, artichoke cuttings and potato seed. The virus has the potential to spread to other growing regions with resident populations of the greenhouse whitefly. The host range, particle size, insect transmission, and serology clearly distinguish TICV from previously described viruses.     

Lack of synergistic effects in tomato plants co-infected with tomato severe rugose virus and tomato chlorosis virus

The begomovirus Tomato severe rugose virus (ToSRV) and the crinivirus Tomato chlorosis virus (ToCV), in single and co-infections, are very common in tomato crops in Brazil. Both viruses are transmitted by the whitefly Bemisia tabaciMEAM1 (biotype B). The objective of this study was to analyse the interaction between ToSRV and ToCV in tomato plants of cultivars Santa Clara and Kada. Plants at 15, 30 and 45 days after emergence were inoculated with 30 viruliferous B. tabaci per plant. The following treatments were compared: plants inoculated with ToSRV, ToCV, ToSRV + ToCV, and healthy (control). The interaction between these viruses was analysed by measuring the virus titre by qPCR and the fresh and dry weights of the aerial parts of the tomato plants. Based on two independent assays, no significant effects for co-infection of ToSRV and ToCV on virus titres and plant development were observed compared to single infections. The dry weight of tomato plants of both cultivars infected with ToSRV, ToCV, or co-infected did not differ significantly. However, the dry weight of Santa Clara tomato plants infected with ToSRV, ToCV and ToSRV + ToCV showed mean reductions of 21.5%, 25.5% and 32%, respectively, compared to healthy plants, and mean reductions for Kada were 31.7%, 37.5% and 38%, respectively.     

番茄褪绿病毒(tomato chlorosis virus)的新寄主:水茄(Solanum torvum Swartz)

Tomato chlorosis virus (ToCV) is a plant virus that is mainly propagated by Bemisia tabaci in a semi-persistent and non-circulative manner.It has a wide range of host plants,and has been reported in many countries,causing serious economic losses in vegetable production.In 2019,we investigated about 10 fields,one ha each in Shouguang,Shandong province (China),and in each field we observed symptoms of interveinal chlorosis on lower leaves of the Solanum torvum Swartz,and a large number of B.tabaci gathered on the back of its leaves.To determine the presence of ToCV,total RNA of S.torvum was extracted followed by RT-PCR.The 1 074 (GenBank accessions number MN545620) and 466 bp (GenBank accessions number MN545621) fragments were gel purified and sequenced.The sequences shared 99.44% and 99.57% similarity with ToCV reference sequence tomato chlorosis virus segment RNA1 (AY903447) and RNA2 (AY903448).The results of insect transmission test confirmed that ToCV can spread from S. torvum to tomato.This study confirms S.torvum as a newly reported host of ToCV.     

番茄褪绿病毒(tomato chlorosis virus)的新寄主:水茄(Solanum torvum Swartz)

Tomato chlorosis virus (ToCV) is a plant virus that is mainly propagated by Bemisia tabaci in a semi-persistent and non-circulative manner.It has a wide range of host plants,and has been reported in many countries,causing serious economic losses in vegetable production.In 2019,we investigated about 10 fields,one ha each in Shouguang,Shandong province (China),and in each field we observed symptoms of interveinal chlorosis on lower leaves of the Solanum torvum Swartz,and a large number of B.tabaci gathered on the back of its leaves.To determine the presence of ToCV,total RNA of S.torvum was extracted followed by RT-PCR.The 1 074 (GenBank accessions number MN545620) and 466 bp (GenBank accessions number MN545621) fragments were gel purified and sequenced.The sequences shared 99.44% and 99.57% similarity with ToCV reference sequence tomato chlorosis virus segment RNA1 (AY903447) and RNA2 (AY903448).The results of insect transmission test confirmed that ToCV can spread from S. torvum to tomato.This study confirms S.torvum as a newly reported host of ToCV.