Susceptibility of Citrus Varieties, Species, Citrus Relatives, and Non-Rutaceous Plants to Slash-cut Mechanical Inoculation with Citrus Tristeza Virus (CTV)
Susceptibility of Citrus Varieties, Species, Citrus Relatives, and Non-Rutaceous Plants to Slash-cut Mechanical Inoculation with Citrus Tristeza Virus (CTV)
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柑橘品种、物种、柑橘近缘种和非芸香植物对柑橘 Tristeza 病毒 (CTV) 切线机械接种的敏感性
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1984
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S. Garnsey
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G. W. Müller;S. Garnsey
The susceptibility of 47 citrus species, cultivars, hybrids and relatives to citrus tristeza virus (CTV) infection was tested by stem-slash inoculation of greenhouse-grown plants with concentrated, partially purified preparations of CTV. Infection in 26 of 31 citrus selections inoculated was detected by symptoms and/or by ELISA (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay). The ELISA procedure was valuable for detecting symptomless infections. CTV-induced vein clearing was observed in several normally latent hosts such as Rangpur lime a t the onset of systemic infection. High rates of infection were observed in Etrog citron, Rangpur lime, calamondin, Mexican lime, sweet orange and Citrus hystrix. Grapefruit and Cuban Shaddock were difficult to infect. Six of 16 citrus relatives mechanically inoculated were infected: Aegle marmelos (L.) Corr., Aeglopsis chevalieri Swing., Afraegle paniculata (Schum.) Engl., Citropsis gilletiana Swing. & M. Kell., Microcitrus australis (Planch.) Swing., and Pamburus missionis (Wt.) Swing. No CTV infections were detected by ELISA in the 55 different woody and herbaceous nonrutaceous plants inoculated. Tristeza was retransmitted mechanically from A. marmelos to Etrog citron. Since the 1940's a large number of citrus types and a few citrus relatives have been tested for susceptibility to the citrus tristeza virus (CTV), a t the Instituto Agron6mic0, Campinas, Brazil (3, 5, 10, 11). Inoculations have been made by grafting, by aphid vectors, and with several species of dodder (1, 3). Graft transmission of CTV has been limited to hosts graft-compatible with citrus (13), but CTV has been transmitted to several citrus relatives, such as Aeglopsis chevalieri by aphids. Repeated attempts also have been made to extend the host range of CTV outside the Rutaceae ( 6 , 12), but this has been successful only with Passiflora gracilis Jacq. inoculated by aphids (1, 14). The recently developed procedure to mechanically transmit CTV to citrus (7) and the adaptation of the ELISA test to quickly detect CTV infections (2) offered *Use of a company or product name by the U.S. Department of Agriculture does not imply approval or recommendation of the product to the exclusion of others which may also be suitable. further possibilities to test citrus, citrus relatives and nonrutaceous plants as hosts of CTV. We hoped that herbaceous hosts could be discovered which would be better assay and/or increase plants for CTV. In this paper, we report the results of inoculating and indexing numerous citrus, citrus relatives, and nonrutaceous plants to determine their susceptibility to CTV infection by mechanical inoculation. MATERIALS AND METHODS Plant materials and growing conditions. Tests were conducted in an air-cooled, partly shaded glasshouse in Orlando, Florida. Temperatures ranged from 22 to 27 C in winter and spring and 22 to 35 C in summer. Plants were grown in a sterilized potting mix, fertilized and sprayed as needed to maintain healthy, vigorous growth. Plants were grown from seeds or from rooted cuttings of clonal, virus-free sources. A variety of nonrutaceous plants were chosen for testing. Ninth IOCV Conference Some were woody, some were hosts for other viruses, viroids, and prokaryotic pathogens (1516), some were weeds found in citrus orchards, and one has been described as a nonrutaceous host of T. citricida (17). Etrog citron plants which are susceptible to CTV infection by mechanical inoculation (7) were included in every experiment to verify infectivity of the inoculum. Inoculation preparation. Young stem bark from greenhouse-grown Etrog citron or sweet lime plants infected with CTV isolate T-3 (a seedling yellows (SY) isolate) or CTV isolate T-4 (a non-SY isolate), was peeled and wrapped in 5 g bundles with "Parafilm@." The bundles were sectioned on a Hooker@ microtome and finely diced with a razor blade a t a 1 :3 (w/v) ratio in extraction buffer (0.05 M TrisHC1 buffer [Tris (hydroxymethyl) aminomethane hydrochloride], pH 7.8 which contained 100 mg/l sucrose and 2 pl/ml of 2-mercaptoethanol). The extract was squeezed through cheesecloth by hand press and reextracted with a small volume of buffer. All extraction steps were done a t 0 to 4 C. Extracts were clarified by centrifugation for 15 minutes a t 12,000 RPM in a Sorvall@ SS-34 rotor and layered in 2.5 x 7.5 or 2.5 x 8.75 cm centrifuge tubes containing a freshly prepared sucrose step gradient (5 ml of 250 mg/ml and 5 ml of 600 mg/ml sucrose in Tris buffer) (8). Tubes were centrifuged overnight a t 21,500 RPM in a Beckmans SW25.1 rotor or a t 19,000 RPM in a SW28 rotor. Half ml fractions were collected in premarked test tubes by puncturing the bottom of the gradient tube. Gradient fractions were tested for CTV content by ELISA (bead procedure) and the leading (lowest) 2-3 CTV-containing fractions were combined and diluted I :l with 0.05 M Tris to use a s inoculum. Approximately 6 to 9 ml of inoculum was recovered from 25 g of bark tissue. Inoculation. Most inoculations were done from January through April and during September and October 1980, but some were also done in the spring of 1981,1982 and 1983. Inoculations were done by the stem-slash method (7) with 30 cuts a t each of 3 sites on the plant stem. Most stems were 0.4 to 0.8 cm in diam a t the point of inoculation. Usually a minimum of 10 plants of each type were inoculated. Fresh, partially purified preparations were used for each inoculation test and Etrog citron plants were used to verify infectivity of each batch. Initially, cuts on citrus and citrus relatives were wrapped with Stericrepea (Beacon & Janis Ltd., London, W.C.I., England). Later, however, this was found unnecessary. Some succulent nonrutaceous plants were covered with plastic bags and on others the inoculation cuts were wrapped with "Parafilm" and the plants were not covered. Leaf midribs were also slashed on some herbaceous plants. After inoculation, the herbaceous plants were put in the shade for 48 hours before the plastic bags were removed. Citrus and most woody plants were cut back immediately to force new growth and the herbaceous plants were cut back 2 weeks after inoculation. Rapidly growing plants were cut back several times before testing for CTV infection. Three to 5 uninoculated control plants were kept for each species tested. Assay for infection. All citrus cultivars, species and relatives were examined periodically for vein clearing and the noncitrus plants were examined for vein clearing plus any other abnormalities. After the Etrog citron control plants showed vein-clearing symptoms, succulent stem bark tissue was collected from inoculated citrus Tristexa and Related Diseases and citrus relatives. Whole young stem was collected from succulent nonrutaceous hosts. Chopped tissue (0.5 g) was placed in a 2.5 cm-diameter glass tube with 5 ml of PBST-2 PVP buffer (phosphatebuffered saline with 0.05% Tween@ 20 and 2% polyvinylpyrrolidone,, m.w. 40,000) (2, 4) and homogenized about 15 seconds with a SDTTissumizer@ (Tekmar Co., Cincinnati, Ohio 45222). The extracts were filtered through glass wool and the ELISA tests were conducted by the double antibody sandwich method (4). The CTV antiserum used was prepared to unfixed, whole virus of the T-4 isolate (9). IgG was purified and conjugates to alkaline phosphatase prepared as described previously (2, 4). We used polystyrene Micro !ELISA@ plates (Dynatech Labs, Inc., Alexandria, Virginia 22314) with round-bottom wells. Healthy extracts, CTV-infected extracts, and buffer controls were included in each plate for reference. Plates were scored visually and results recorded by photography. In some cases, the absorbance a t 405 nm was also determined spectrophotometrically on diluted samples to verify assessment. Samples were not considered CTV-positive unless the O.D.,,, was 2X that of the