New Disease Reports (2006) 13, 45.

A new begomovirus associated with yellow vein disease of Siegesbeckia glabrescens

J.B. Wu 1, J.H. Cai 2 and X.P. Zhou 1*

*zzhou@zju.edu.cn

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Accepted: 19 Jul 2006

In January 2005, three virus isolates (G110, G111 and G112) were obtained from Siegesbeckia glabrescens plants showing stunting and yellow vein symptoms (Fig. 1), collected in Guangxi, China.

To identify possible begomoviruses, total DNA was extracted from leaves with symptoms. The degenerate primer pair PA /PB was used to amplify part of the intergenic region and AV2 gene of DNA-A like molecule (Xie et al., 2002). A 500 bp DNA fragment was amplified from all the samples, and these were cloned and sequenced. Alignment of the sequences showed the cloned products shared 94.9 to 99.4% nucleotide sequence identities (Acc. No. AM238692-94), indicating these samples were infected by a single virus. Overlap primers Full/F (5’-CTGCAGATA TAGTCATTTCCAC-3’) and Full/R (5’-GTGGAAATGACTATAT CTGCAG-3’) were then designed to amplify the full length DNA-A of G111. The complete G111 DNA-A sequence is 2784 nucleotides (Acc. No. AM238692) and shares the highest nucleotide sequence identity (85.4%) with Siegesbeckia yellow vein virus-[GD13] (SgYVV-[GD13]; Acc. No. AM183224) (Fig. 2A. To test whether DNA-β was associated with the three viral isolates, a universal DNA-β primer pair (beta 01 and beta 02) was used (Zhou et al., 2003). An amplicon of about 1.3 kb was obtained from all the samples. Sequence analysis revealed that DNA-β of G111 was 1355 nucleotides (Acc. No. AM238695); sharing the highest nucleotide sequence identity (68.2%) with DNA β of SgYVV-[GD13] (Acc. No. AM230643) (Fig. 2B).

These results confirmed that the virus associated with yellow vein disease of S. glabrescens in Guangxi is a new begomovirus associating with a satellite DNA molecule, for which the name Siegesbeckia yellow vein Guangxi virus (SgYVGdV) is proposed. Plants infected with SgYVGdV had yellow vein symptoms but no enations on the leaves as associated with SgYVV.

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Figure 1: Yellow vein symptoms in Siegesbeckia glabrescens
Figure 1: Yellow vein symptoms in Siegesbeckia glabrescens
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Figure 2: Dendrograms showing the phylogenetic relationship between G111 DNA-A (A) and DNA β (B) with other representative begomovirus DNA-A or DNA-β based on multiple alignments of DNA nucleotide sequences. The tree was generated using the Neighbor-joining method in DNAMAN. Virus sequences, with their accession numbers, used in the analyses for DNA-A are: Ageratum yellow vein China virus (AYVCNV; AJ495813), Eupatorium yellow vein virus (EpYVMV; AJ438937), Honeysuckle yellow vein mosaic virus (HYVMV; AB178946), Papaya leaf curl China virus (PaLCuCNV; AJ811914), Siegesbeckia yellow vein virus (SgYVV; AM183224), Tobacco curly shoot virus (TbCSV; AJ420318), Tomato leaf curl Guangdong virus (ToLCGuV; AY602166), Tomato leaf curl Karnataka virus (ToLCKV; U38239), Tomato yellow leaf curl China virus (TYLCCNV; DQ256460), Tomato yellow leaf curl Thailand virus (TYLCTHV; AJ495812); and for DNA-β are: Ageratum leaf curl virus (ALCuVβ; AJ316027), Ageratum yellow vein China virus (AYVCNVβ; AJ971258), Ageratum yellow vein virus (AYVVβ; AJ557441), Honeysuckle yellow vein mosaic virus (HYVMV β; AJ543430), Siegesbeckia glabrescens yellow vein virus (SgYVVβ; AM230643), Tobacco curly shoot virus (TbCSVβ; AJ421484), Tomato leaf curl virus (ToLCVβ; AY438558), Tomato yellow leaf curl China virus (TYLCCNVβ; AJ457818), Tomato yellow leaf curl Thailand virus (TYLCTHVβ; AJ566748); Zinnia leaf curl virus (ZiLCVβ; AJ316028).
Figure 2: Dendrograms showing the phylogenetic relationship between G111 DNA-A (A) and DNA β (B) with other representative begomovirus DNA-A or DNA-β based on multiple alignments of DNA nucleotide sequences. The tree was generated using the Neighbor-joining method in DNAMAN. Virus sequences, with their accession numbers, used in the analyses for DNA-A are: Ageratum yellow vein China virus (AYVCNV; AJ495813), Eupatorium yellow vein virus (EpYVMV; AJ438937), Honeysuckle yellow vein mosaic virus (HYVMV; AB178946), Papaya leaf curl China virus (PaLCuCNV; AJ811914), Siegesbeckia yellow vein virus (SgYVV; AM183224), Tobacco curly shoot virus (TbCSV; AJ420318), Tomato leaf curl Guangdong virus (ToLCGuV; AY602166), Tomato leaf curl Karnataka virus (ToLCKV; U38239), Tomato yellow leaf curl China virus (TYLCCNV; DQ256460), Tomato yellow leaf curl Thailand virus (TYLCTHV; AJ495812); and for DNA-β are: Ageratum leaf curl virus (ALCuVβ; AJ316027), Ageratum yellow vein China virus (AYVCNVβ; AJ971258), Ageratum yellow vein virus (AYVVβ; AJ557441), Honeysuckle yellow vein mosaic virus (HYVMV β; AJ543430), Siegesbeckia glabrescens yellow vein virus (SgYVVβ; AM230643), Tobacco curly shoot virus (TbCSVβ; AJ421484), Tomato leaf curl virus (ToLCVβ; AY438558), Tomato yellow leaf curl China virus (TYLCCNVβ; AJ457818), Tomato yellow leaf curl Thailand virus (TYLCTHVβ; AJ566748); Zinnia leaf curl virus (ZiLCVβ; AJ316028).

References

  1. Xie Y, Zhou XP, Zhang ZK, Qi YJ, 2002. Tobacco curly shoot virus isolated in Yunnan is a distinct species of Begomovirus. Chinese Science Bulletin 47, 197-200.
  2. Zhou XP, Xie Y, Tao XR, Zhang ZK, Li ZH, Fauquet CM, 2003. Characterization of DNA-β associated with begomoviruses in China and evidence for co-evolution with their cognate viral DNA-A. Journal of General Virology 84, 237-247.

This report was formally published in Plant Pathology

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