Detection of Citrus Psorosis Virus by ELISA, Molecular Hybridization, RT-PCR and Immunosorbent Electron Microscopy and its Association with Citrus Psorosis Disease |
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Authors: | Susana Martín Daniela Alioto Robert G. Milne Stephen M. Garnsey Mª Laura García Oscar Grau José Guerri Pedro Moreno |
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Affiliation: | (1) Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias, Cra. Moncada - Náquera Km. 4.5, 46113 Moncada, Valencia, Spain;(2) Dipartimento di Arboricoltura, Botanica e Patología Vegetale, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Portici, Napoli, Italy;(3) USDA Horticultural Research Laboratory, University of Florida, C.R.E.C, Lake Alfred, FL, USA (Former address:, Orlando, FL) |
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Abstract: | Psorosis is a citrus disease of undemonstrated etiology that can be diagnosed by biological indexing on sweet orange seedlings followed by a cross protection test. Its presumed causal agent is Citrus psorosis virus(CPsV), type species of the genus Ophiovirus. We compared detection of CPsV by ELISA, RT-PCR, molecular hybridization and immunosorbent electron microscopy, and examined its association with psorosis disease in 11 biologically characterized isolates and in 47 uncharacterized field sources by observation of field symptoms and by biological indexing including the cross protection test. Detection of CPsV by any of the four procedures always coincided with diagnosis of psorosis by cross protection, but it did not always correlate with observation of symptoms thought to be specific, in field trees or in graft-inoculated indicator plants. Trials to detect CPsV by ELISA, molecular hybridization and RT-PCR in citrus sources from different geographical origins, presumed to be psorosis-infected on the basis of field symptoms or reaction of indicator plants, were sometimes unsuccessful, indicating that psorosis symptoms may be induced by causes other than CPsV. |
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Keywords: | biological indexing CPsV diagnosis cross protection psorosis A psorosis B tissue prints |
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