Differential disease phenotype of begomoviruses associated with tobacco leaf curl disease in Comoros |
| |
Authors: | M Thierry P Lefeuvre M Hoareau F Péréfarres H Delatte B Reynaud D P Martin J-M Lett |
| |
Institution: | 1.CIRAD, UMR PVBMT, P?le de Protection des Plantes,Saint-Pierre,France;2.Université de La Réunion, UMR PVBMT, P?le de Protection des Plantes,Saint-Pierre,France;3.Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine,University of Cape Town,Cape Town,South Africa |
| |
Abstract: | In the 2000s, tobacco plantations on the Comoros Islands were afflicted with a previously unobserved tobacco leaf curl disease
characterised by symptoms of severe leaf curling and deformation. Previous molecular characterization of potential viral pathogens
revealed a complex of African monopartite tobacco leaf curl begomovirus (TbLCVs). Our molecular investigation allowed the
characterization of a new monopartite virus involved in the disease: tomato leaf curl Namakely virus (ToLCNamV). Agroinoculation
experiments indicated that TbLCVs and tomato leaf curl viruses (ToLCVs) can infect both tomato and tobacco but that infectivity
and symptom expression fluctuate depending on the virus and the plant cultivar combination. |
| |
Keywords: | |
本文献已被 PubMed SpringerLink 等数据库收录! |
|