• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제17권11호
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• pp.1833-1840
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• 2007

Viruses in garlic plants (Allium sativum L.) have accumulated and evolved over generations, resulting in serious consequences for the garlic trade around the world. These viral epidemics are also known to be caused by aphids and eriophyid mites (Aceria tulipae) carrying Potyviruses, Carlaviruses, and Allexiviruses. However, little is known about viral epidemics in garlic plants caused by eriophyid mites. Therefore, this study investigated the infection of garlic plants with Allexiviruses by eriophyid mites. When healthy garlic plants were cocultured with eriophyid mites, the leaves of the garlic plants developed yellow mosaic strips and became distorted. In extracts from the eriophyid mites, Allexiviruses were observed using immunosorbent electron microscopy (ISEM). From an immunoblot analysis, coat proteins against an Allexivirus garlic-virus antiserum were clearly identified in purified extracts from collected viral-infected garlic plants, eriophyid mites, and garlic plants infected by eriophyid mites. A new strain of GarV-B was isolated and named GarV-B Korea isolate 1 (GarV-B1). The ORF1 and ORF2 in GarV-B1 contained a typical viral helicase, RNA-directed RNA polymerase (RdRp), and triple gene block protein (TGBp) for viral movement between cells. The newly identified GarV-B1 was phylogenetically grouped with GarV-C and GarV-X in the Allexivirus genus. All the results in this study demonstrated that eriophyid mites are a transmitter insect species for Allexiviruses.

• The Plant Pathology Journal
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.215-218
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• 2007

The occurrence and relative incidence of viruses including Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV), Zucchini yellow mosaic virus (ZYMV), Papaya rings pot virus (PRSV), and Watermelon mosaic virus (WMV), Cucumber green mottle mosaic virus (CGMMV), Kyuri green mottle mosaic virus (KGMMV), and Melon necrotic spot virus (MNSV) were surveyed from main melon (Cucumis melo L.) production areas in Jeonnam province during 2000-2002. Virus disease incidences of melon cultivating fields were 0% and 11% in spring and fall 2000; 40%, 2.1%, and 8.8% in spring, summer, and fall 2001; and 6.3 % in spring 2002 in main cultivated areas in Jeonnam province, respectively. Field disease incidences of melon virus infections were 0% and 18.8% in spring and fall 2000; 50%, 38.5%, and 82.6% in spring, summer, and fall 2001; and 47.4% in spring 2002, respectively. Total of 101 melon samples showing typical disease symptoms were collected from 2000 to 2002 and tested for virus infection by RT-PCR. Potyvirus-specific DNA fragments for WMV, ZYMV, and PRSV were amplified from 46, 5, and 4 samples, respectively. MNSV specific DNA fragment was amplified from 18 samples. CMV-specific DNA fragment was detected from only 3 samples.

• Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering:BBE
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.89-95
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• 2006

Potato plants carrying the Ry gene are extremely resistance to a number of potyviruses, but it is not known which variety expressed the resistance. In this investigation, combined classical and molecular techniques were used to identify virus resistance potatoes. Mechanical inoculation of 32 varieties of Korean potato cultivars, with potato virus Y (PVY), induced various symptoms, such as mosaic, yellowing, necrosis, mottle, vein clearing and vein bending. Different virus spreading patterns were observed, such as highly sensitive, moderate and resistant to $PVY^o$ inoculated leaves in different cultivars. From the results of double antibody sandwich-enzyme links immunosorbant assays (DAS-ELISA), coupled with reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), Winter valley and Golden valley were found to be highly susceptible and resistant cultivars to $PVY^o$ respectively. TEM was used as a complementary method to conform the localization of the virus in leaf tissues. TEM detect virus particles in Golden valley, where, ELISA and RT-PCR were unable to detect the CP gene. However, the interior part of the tissues was severely deformed in $PVY^o$ infected Winter valley, than Golden valley The Ry gene is involved in an induced response in $PVY^o$ infected Golden valley plants. The methods described in this study could be applied for the screening and development of antiviral potatoes.

• Applied Microscopy
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.105-114
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• 1994

Maize dwarf mosaic virus (MDMV) strain A에 감염된 수수 (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench) 품종 HOK와 strain B에 감염된 Pioneer 8680의 엽세포를 미세구조적으로 비교연구한 결과 종단면과 횡단면으로 초박절편된 표본에서 다양한 원통형 봉입체의 형성이 관찰되었다. MDMV strain A와 B는 세포질 내에 존재하는 특별한 봉입체의 유무에 따라 뚜렷이 구별되었다. MDMV-B에 감염된 Pioneer 8680 수수 엽세포는 pinwheels, bundles, scrolls, 그리고 laminated aggregates 형태의 원통형 봉입체가 관찰된 반면, MDMV-A에 감염된 HOK 수수 엽세포에서는 laminated aggregates가 결여되어 있다. 특히 laminated aggregates의 유무와 관련하여 MDMV 두 strain간에 원통형 봉입체의 미세구조적 차이점은 potyvirus군을 아군으로 분류하는 형태학적 지표가 되어왔다. laminated aggregates가 존재하면 아군 III으로, 존재하지 않을 경우 아군 I로 분류될 수 있다. 이런 원통형 봉입체의 이형화는 바이러스 특이적 유도체로서, 아마도 감염의 발전에 따른 형태 발생을 발현하는 것으로 사료된다.

• The Plant Pathology Journal
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.121-125
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• 2002

This study was conducted to determine the causal virus that naturally infected hollyhock (Althaea rosea) plant showing mild mosaic symptom in 1999. Flexuous virus particles were found in the cytoplasm of plant tissue from infected hollyhock under transmissible electron microscopy. A virus from the genus Potyvirus under the family Potyviridae was isolated and was maintained on Chenopodium quinoa for three passages. Chlorotic local legions were used to inoculate 20 species of indicator plants. The virus infected all the tested cucurbit plants, but failed to infect Nicotiana benthamiana. Based on the host range test and RT-PCR analysis, the potyvirus was identified as a strain of Zucchini yellow mosaic virus-A (ZYMV-A), one of the major pathogens of cucurbits. Infectivity analysis showed that ZYMV-A induced faster systemic symptom than ZYMV-Cu on squash and other cucurbit plants, suggesting that ZYMV-A was a more severe strain. To better characterize ZYMV-A, Western blot assay was carried rout to the coat protein (CP) of the virus using ZYMV-specific antiserum with ZYMV-Cu and other potyviruses. The CP of the virus reacted strongly with the antiserum against ZYMV, and other tested antisera did not react with the CP of ZYMV-A. Results strongly suggest that the potyvirus infecting hollyhock was a novel strain of ZYMV. This is the first report on ZYMV as the causal virus infecting hollyhock in Korea.

• The Plant Pathology Journal
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.197-201
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• 2012

Potyviruses express their RNA genomes through the production of polyproteins that are processed in host cells by three virus-encoded proteases. Soybean plants produce large amounts of protease inhibitors during seed development and in response to wounding that could affect the activities of these proteases. The in vitro activities of two of the proteases of Soybean mosaic virus (SMV) and Tobacco vein mottling virus (TVMV) were compared in the rabbit reticulocyte lysate in vitro translation system using synthetic RNA transcripts. Transcripts produced from SMV and TVMV cDNAs that included the P1 and helper component-protease (HC-Pro) coding regions directed synthesis of protein products that were only partially processed. Unprocessed poly-proteins were not detected from transcripts that included all of the P1, HC-Pro, P3 and portions of the cylindrical inclusion protein coding regions of either virus. Addition of soybean trypsin inhibitor to in vitro translation reactions increased the accumulation of the unprocessed polyprotein from TVMV transcripts, but did not alter the patterns of proteins produced from SMV. These experiments suggest that SMV-and TVMV-encoded proteases are differentially sensitive to protease inhibitors.

• The Plant Pathology Journal
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• 제38권4호
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• pp.383-394
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• 2022

In Japan, the P1 protein (S-type) encoded by leek yellow stripe virus (LYSV) isolates detected in Honshu and southward is shorter than the P1 (N-type) of LYSV isolates from garlic grown in Hokkaido due to a large deletion in the N-terminal half. In garlic fields in Hokkaido, two types of LYSV isolate with N- and S-type P1s are sometimes found in mixed infections. In this study, we confirmed that N- and S-type P1 sequences were present in the same plant and that they belong to different evolutionary phylogenetic groups. To investigate how LYSV with S-type P1 (LYSV-S) could have invaded LYSV with N-type P1 (LYSV-N)-infected garlic, we examined wild Allium spp. plants in Hokkaido and found that LYSV was almost undetectable. On the other hand, in Honshu, LYSV-S was detected at a high frequency in Allium spp. other than garlic, suggesting that the LYSV-S can infect a wider host range of Allium spp. compared to LYSV-N. Because P1 proteins of potyviruses have been reported to promote RNA silencing suppressor (RSS) activity of HC-Pro proteins, we analyzed whether the same was true for P1 of LYSV. In onion, contrary to expectation, the P1 protein itself had RSS activity. Moreover, the RSS activity of S-type P1 was considerably stronger than that of N-type P1, suggesting that LYSV P1 may be able to enhance its RSS activity when the deletion is in the N-terminal half and that acquiring S-type P1 may have enabled LYSV to expand its host range.

• 한국식물병리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국식물병리학회 2003년도 정기총회 및 추계학술발표회
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• pp.148.2-149
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• 2003

Cucumber fruit mottle mosaic tobamovirus (CFMMV) causes severe mosaic symptoms with yellow mottling on leaves and fruits, and occasionally severe wilting of cucumber plants. No genetic source of resistance against this virus has been identified. The genes coding for the coat protein or the putative 54-kDa replicase were cloned into binary vectors under control of the SVBV promoter. Agrobacterium-mediated transformation was peformed on cotyledon explants of a parthenocarpic cucumber cultivar with superior competence for transformation. R1 seedlings were evaluated for resistance to CFMMV infection by lack of symptom expression, back inoculation on an alternative host and ELISA. From a total of 14 replicase-containing R1 lines, 8 exhibited immunity, while only 3 resistant lines were found among a total of 9 CP-containing lines. Line 144 homozygous for the 54-kDa replicase was selected for further resistance analysis. Line 144 was immune to CFMMV infection by mechanical and graft inoculation, or by root infection following planting in CFMMV-contaminated soil. Additionally, line 144 showed delay of symptom appearance following infection by other cucurbit-infecting tobamoviruses. Infection of line 144 plants with various potyviruses and cucumber mosaic cucumovirus did not break the resistance to CFMMV. The mechanism of resistance of line 144 appears to be RNA-mediated, however the means is apparently different from the gene silencing phenomenon. Homozygote line 144 cucumber as rootstock demonstrated for the first time protection of a non-transformed scion from soil inoculation with a soil borne pathogen, CFMMV.

• 식물병연구
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.307-313
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• 2014

2013년 5월, 경기도 수원시에서 모자이크와 기형의 병징을 보이는 천사의 나팔꽃 잎을 채집하였다. 채집한 시료는 전자현미경을 이용하여 검경한 결과 720-800 nm 길이의 사상형 입자가 관찰되었다. 전자현미경 검경 결과에 근거하여 기보고된 3종의 바이러스(Brugmansia mosaic virus, Colombian datura virus, Brugmansia suaveolens mottle virus)에 대하여 RT-PCR을 수행하였으며, BruMV에 양성반응을 보였다. 기계적 접종을 이용하여 BruMV의 병원성과 기주범위를 결정하였다. 가지과(담배, 토마토, 가지)와 비름과(땅꽈리)에서 전형적인 바이러스 병징이 나타났다. BruMV의 외피단백질을 결정하기 위하여 특이적 프라이머를 설계하였고, PCR, 클로닝, 시퀀싱을 수행하였다. 계통수 분석 결과, BruMV-SW는 BruMV SK와 가장 유사한 것으로 나타났다. 외피단백질을 이용한 뉴클레오타이드 상동성 비교에서는 BruMV 분리주와 92%와 99%의 상동성을 보였다.

• 식물병연구
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.71-73
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• 2007

전라남도 호박 주산단지의 2000년 바이러스병 발생포장율은 노지재배 76.1%,억제재배 55%,반촉성재배는 발생이 없었으며, 포장별 이병주율은 반촉성재배 3.6%, 노지재배 100%이었다. 포장에서 채집된 시료에 대한 RT-PCR 검정결과 노지재배는 40점 시료 중 WMV 16점, ZYMV 10점, PRSV 2점이 각각 검출되었으며, WMV, ZYMV, PRSV의 2개 또는 3개 바이러스에 중복감염된 시료도 7점이었다. 억제재배는 21점 시료중 WMV 7점, ZYMV 6점, PRSV 6점, WMV와 PRSV의 2개 바이러스에 중복감염된 시료가 1점이었으며, CMV는 검출되지 않았다.