Potato virus Y: An Evolving Concern for Potato Crops in the United States and Canada
Potato virus Y: An Evolving Concern for Potato Crops in the United States and Canada
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DOI:
10.1094/pdis-02-10-0124
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发表时间:
2010-12-01
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影响因子:
4.5
通讯作者:
Xu, Huimin
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作者:
Gray, Stewart;De Boer, Solke;Xu, Huimin
PVYO has been recognized as an issue for potato production at least since its description in the early twentieth century (79) and likely long before that. However, the necrotic strains of PVY are a relatively recent introduction to potato grown in both the United States and Canada. The first report of a tobacco veinal necrosis strain of PVY (PVYN)(Fig. 3) in the United States was by Kahn and Monroe (41), but this was intercepted on potato introductions from South America, and the virus was not found in the field. PVYN was identified in Ontario, Canada tobacco fields in 1969 (85) and again in 1989 (55). Using the tools available at the time, McDonald and Kristjansson (55) characterized several of these isolates and found they shared properties reported for other potatoinfecting PVYN isolates from Europe and South America. In 1990, PVYN was reported in seed potatoes growing in Prince Edward Island (PEI) and New Brunswick. Summer sampling and subsequent winter tests identified PVYN in several fields from both provinces, but all the seed originated from a single seed source in PEI (86). A massive survey (4.7 million leaves) in the summer of 1991 identified low levels of PVYN in other eastern Canadian provinces (86). The extremely low incidence of the tobacco veinal necrotic strain of PVY found prompted a study to determine if eradication was possible. The conclusion was that an eradication effort carried out primarily through the potato seed certification program could prevent the multiplication of any PVYN-infected seed potatoes and their spread to other geographic locations (86). A similar eradication effort had been successful in New Zealand during the 1980s (27) and remained effective well into the 1990s (28). The survey of 1991, in addition to the PVYN disclosure, also identified other variant forms of PVYN. For example, while investigating possible sources of the PVYN introduction into Canada, three isolates collected in 1991 from table-stock potatoes imported from California, and apparently grown from Canadian seed, were identified as belonging to the PVYNTN group on the basis of their induction of potato tuber necrotic ringspot disease (PTNRD)(57). Also, two isolates from Manitoba induced veinal necrosis in tobacco, but failed to react with four different PVYN-specific monoclonal antibodies in ELISA (56). During this time, postharvest test samples representing seed lots from seven Canadian provinces and five American states were grown-out in California and Florida in the United States and in Jamaica as part of the seed certification process. Surveys of these seed lots by sampling leaves and testing with enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for PVY and PVYN were done by Peter Ellis, then of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. This survey was conducted from 1991 through 1994 with no