Tomato brown rugose fruit disease: current distribution,knowledge and future prospects

Tomato is the most economically important fruit/vegetable crop grown worldwide. However, viral diseases remain an important factor limiting its productivity, with estimated quantitative and qualitative yield losses in tomato crops often reaching up to 100%. Many viruses infecting tomato have been reported, while new viral diseases have also emerged. The climatic changes the world is experiencing can be a contributing factor to the successful spread of newly emerging viruses, as well as the establishment of disease in areas that were previously either unfavourable or where the disease was absent. Because antiviral products are not available, strategies to mitigate viral diseases rely on genetic resistance/tolerance to infection, control of vectors, improvement in crop hygiene, roguing of infected plants and seed certification. Tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV) is an emerging viral threat to tomato productivity and is currently spreading into new areas, which is of great concern to the growing global production in the absence of mitigation measures. This review presents the current knowledge about ToBRFV and future prospects for an improved understanding of the virus, which will be needed to support effective control and mitigation of the impact it is likely to cause.     

Cytoplasmic and cytogenetic relationships among tetraploid Triticum species

Summary The F₁ hybrids from crosses of 59 accessions of wild and cultivated Triticum types including amphidiploids T. boeoticum-Ae. squarrosa, T. timopheevi-Ae. squarrosa, T. timopheevi-T. monococcum, T. boeoticum (4n), T. macha, and T. Zhukovskyi with T. durum Sel. 56-1 and/or T. aestivum were examined for male sterility and chromosome pairing at metaphase I of meiosis in pollen mother cells. Those hybrids which produced male-sterile F₁'s were recurrently backrossed with pollen from T. durum or T. aestivum to study segregation for male sterility and/or to confirm cytoplasmic male sterility.All T. timopheevi and T. araraticum accessions and several T. dicoccoides types, including T. dicoccoides var. nudiglumis from the Turkey-Iran-Iraq area, had male sterility inducing cytoplasm. The chromosome pairing in the F₁ hybrids indicated that all tetraploid Triticum accessions with male sterility inducing cytoplasm had genome AAGG. T. dicoccoides Körn types from the Turkey-Iran-Iraq area had genomes AABB and did not have male sterility inducing cytoplasm. Therefore, T. dicoccoides Körn and the T. timopheevi complex differ from each other cytoplasmically and cytogenetically and occur sympatrically in the Turkey-Iran-Iraq area.Possibly, the cytoplasm of the emmers was not derived from the putative diploid progenitors, T. boeoticum, Ae. speltoides, or Ae. bicornis as indicated by their nucleo-cytoplasmic and cytogenetic relationships with the tetraploid Triticum species. The cytoplasmic differences among Ae. speltoides, T. araraticum and T. timopheevi are of a relatively smaller magnitude than the cytoplasmic differences among T. timopheevi, T. boeoticum, and the emmers. A complete analysis of nucleo-cytoplasmic relationships among Triticum and Aegilops species may indicate the cytoplasmic donor(s) to the two tetraploid Triticum species complexes.Authorized for publication 19 July, 1972 as Paper No 397 in the Journal Series of the North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Stations.     

Interaction ofTriticum boeoticum cytoplasm and genomes ofT. aestivum andT. durum: Restoration of male fertility and plant vigor

Summary Male-sterile plants of reduced vigor were obtained by substitutingT. aestivum and/orT. durum genomes into the cytoplasm ofT. boeoticum, T. monococcum and amphidiploidT. boeoticum-A. squarrosa. Apparent segregation for plant vigor occurred even in advanced generations of the following backcross progenies:T. boeoticum/12*T. durum, T. monococcum/10*T. durum, T. boeoticum/2*T. durum//7*T. aestivum, amphidiploidT. boeoticum-A. squarrosa/6*T. durum and amphidiploidT. boeoticum-A. squarrosa/8*T. aestivum. Highly fertile F₁ hybrids of normal vigor were obtained from crosses of A lines of common wheat in the cytoplasm of amphidiploidT. boeoticum-A. squarrosa orT. timopheevi with R lines having male fertility restoring factors fromT. boeoticum, T. boeoticum-A. squarrosa andT. zhukovskyi. Apparently, vigor-genes complemented the male fertility restoring genes to produce fertile hybrids of normal plant vigor in the crosses amphidiploidT. boeoticum-A. squarrosa/6*T. aestivum, Chris//amphidiploidT. boeoticum-A. squarrosa/T. durum/T. aestivum, Chinese Spring, andT. zhukovskyi/3*T. aestivum, Justin F₈ R lines.Published with the approval of the Director, North Dakota State Agricultural Experiment Station, as Journal Article No. 231Associate Professors of Agronomy.     

Ae.ovata细胞质小麦的核质杂种优势研究

利用恢复系 R113与10种不同细胞质的异质小麦雄性不育系 Selkirk(或Chris)杂交,以鉴定 R113对这些雄性不育系的恢复力。其中有7种细胞质的雄性不育性在不同程度上为 R113所恢复。证明了 R113恢复性的广泛性。特别值得注意的是 R113对 Ae.ovata 细胞质不育的恢复度极高,其恢复性可能由两对恢复基因控制.根据杂交种与其亲本之间以及同质 Selkirk 与异质 Selkirk 品种之间的比较,大多数所测性状,如株高、抗倒伏性、每穗小穗数、每穗粒数、每穗粒重等,在 Ae.ovata 细胞质背景下都有明显的优势.试验证明,在小麦中确实存在着两种杂种优势:即核间杂种优势和核质间杂种优势。Ae.ovata 细胞质的缺点是较晚熟,然而,延长春化时间可以提早抽穗;在其同早熟亲本杂交的后代中,也可以选出早熟植株.在小麦常规育种中或在杂种优势的利用上,可以应用 Ae.orata 细胞质把上述两种杂种优势结合起来,选育优良的小麦核质杂种品种或杂种小麦。     

Trends in research reported in the Netherlands Journal of Plant Pathology, 1895–1973

The ‘Tijdschrift over Planteziekten’, 1895–1963 (Netherlands Journal of Plant Pathology, 1963 on) was analysed to assess the development of plant pathology in the Netherlands. The approach to phytopathological problems is becoming more and more specialized and field work has given way to experimentation in the laboratory.     

Survivability and causes of loss of broody-hen chicks on smallholder households in Bangladesh

We determined the flock sizes and rates of loss caused by different factors in broody-hen chicks (BHC) up to 60 days of age on 600 randomly selected smallholdings in Bangladesh. The smallholders were beneficiaries of a village poultry production chain called ‘Smallholder Livestock Development Project-2’ (SLDP-2) which was undertaken with the financial assistance of the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA). For estimating survival time of BHC, we observed chicks in 80 smallholdings. SLDP-2 aims at ameliorating poverty among women by poultry rearing at village level; in total, 104,000 key rearers, constituting 96% of all of the beneficiaries of the SLDP-2 area, were enrolled in 26 upazilas (a lower administrative unit of Bangladesh). A key rearer is a smallholder who rears at least five ‘Sonali’ (RIR × Fayoumi) and some indigenous (desi) chickens in a semi-scavenging system. Sonali chickens are supplied from the development project, and have higher egg production while the broodiness of the desi hens is exploited to get chicks hatched for future stocks; thus, the chicks hatched and reared to 60 days old at key rearers’ households are called BHC. In this study 32% of the smallholders had BHC each month. At the beginning of a month, the median number of chicks in a flock was 8, and the mean survival time was 50.5 days. Incidence rates of loss of BHC from disease, predation, selling and slaughtering were 0.102, 0.086, 0.009 and 0.002 per chick-month at risk, respectively. The major predators were crows, mongooses and eagles with incidence rates of loss being 0.018, 0.016 and 0.010 per chick-month at risk, respectively. Colibacillosis (both single and mixed infections) contributed to the death of 21% of dead BHC collected; Newcastle disease and salmonellosis contributed to the next highest (14 and 12%) proportional mortalities.     

Ouverture

Les traitements ULV présentent l'avantage de couvrir une plus grande surface par unité de temps, ce qui permet d'améliorer la rentabilité des applications aériennes. En dehors d'autres aspects avantageux, ils ont cependant l'inconvénient d'augmenter les risques de dérive des produits utilisés. C'est d'ailleurs pour cette raison que le diamètre des gouttelettes est de l'ordre de 100 microns et que les composés chimiques spécialement formulés sont appliqués de préférence à l'aube ou en début de soirée. Les risques de phytotoxicité sont à considérer avec soin et il faut s'attendre à une persistance accrue du produit et à une meilleure pénétration des cultures.     

Serosurvey of five viruses in chickens on smallholdings in Bangladesh

A serologic survey was undertaken in chickens in smallholdings in Bangladesh for avian influenza A virus (AIV), egg drop syndrome '76 virus (EDS'76V), infectious bronchitis virus (IBV), Newcastle disease virus (NDV) and reovirus (RV) in three phases: January 2002-May 2003, September 2003-August 2004, and August 2005-March 2006. Four hundred thirty-six sera collected in the 2nd phase, 295 in the first phase, 755 in the 1st plus 2nd phases and 295 in the 1st phase were investigated for AIV, EDS'76V, IBV and RV, respectively, using enzyme linked immunosorbent assays. All 854 sera collected in the three phases were screened for NDV using hemagglutination inhibition test. In chickens 20% were seropositive to AIV, 3% to EDS'76V, 74% to IBV, 88% to NDV, and 47% to RV. The seroprevalence in flocks was 23% to AIV, 6% to EDS'76V, 79% to IBV, 89% to NDV and 56% to RV. Twenty-five percent chickens had > or = 10log(2)HI titers to NDV.