First report of blueberry red ringspot disease caused by Blueberryredringspotvirus in Japan |
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Authors: | Masamichi Isogai Koji Ishii Seisaku Umemoto Manabu Watanabe Nobuyuki Yoshikawa |
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Affiliation: | (1) Plant Pathology Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Iwate University, Ueda 3-chome 18-8, Morioka 020-8550, Japan;(2) Chiba Pest Management Center, 804 Daizenno, Midori-ku, Chiba 266-0006, Japan |
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Abstract: | Virus-like symptoms—red ringspots on stems and leaves, circular blotches or pale spots on fruit—were found on commercial highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum) cultivars Blueray, Weymouth, Duke and Sierra in Japan. In PCR testing, single DNA fragments were amplified from total nucleic acid samples of the diseased blueberry bushes using primers specific to Blueberry red ringspot virus (BRRV). Sequencing analysis of the amplified products revealed 95.7–97.7% nucleotide sequence identity with the BRRV genome. This paper is the first report of blueberry red ringspot disease caused by BRRV in Japan. The nucleotide sequence data reported in this paper are available in the GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ database as accessions AB469884 to AB469893 for BRRV isolates from Japan. |
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Keywords: | Blueberry red ringspot virus Blueberry red ringspot disease Blueberry |
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