First Report of Citrus leaf blotch virus in Sweet Cherry
First Report of Citrus leaf blotch virus in Sweet Cherry
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DOI:
10.1094/pdis-09-15-0965-pdn
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发表时间:
2016-02
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影响因子:
4.5
通讯作者:
Jian Wang;D. Zhu;Y. Tan;X. Zong;H. Wei;Qingzhong Liu
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作者:
Jian Wang;D. Zhu;Y. Tan;X. Zong;H. Wei;Qingzhong Liu
In May 2014, five symptomatic sweet cherry trees (Prunus avium L. cv. Red-lamp), one with severe and four with mild mosaic symptoms, were found in the orchard at the suburb of Tai’an, Shandong Province, China. Total RNA was extracted from young leaf samples of the five symptomatic trees and three symptomless trees. Total RNA from the severely symptomatic tree was used for small RNA (sRNA) library construction. RNAs of< 50 nt were purified from 6% polyacrylamide and sequenced on an Illumina HiSeq2000. Raw sequencing reads were analyzed using a CLC Genomics Workbench 7.5 (CLCbio, Aarhus, Denmark). After removal of the host sRNAs (database constructed by sweet cherry RNA-seq sequence libraries deposited in NCBI), 301 contigs (> 100 nt) were assembled (length fraction, 0.94; similarity fraction, 1.0). BLASTn searches at NCBI (nonredundant nucleotide database) revealed contigs similar to Cherry virus A (CVA, 56 contigs), Prunus necrotic ringspot virus (PNRSV, 13 contigs), Little cherry virus 1 (LChV-1, two contigs) and Citrus leaf blotch virus (CLBV, three contigs). CVA, PNRSV, and LChV-1 infections of sweet cherry have been reported in China (Lu et al. 2015; Zong et al. 2014), but not CLBV. RT-PCR confirmed the CVA, PNRSV, and LChV-1 infections in the tree (Lu et al. 2015; Zong et al. 2014). To verify CLBV infection, primers (CLBV-F: GCCTACAGTTTAAGTGAGAGGCT and CLBV-R: GTCTAAAAGTTCTTAAAAGACATC) were designed according to the determined sequence and used to amplify a DNA fragment covering the movement protein (MP) and coat protein (CP) genes of CLBV by RT-PCR. A 2.9-kb DNA fragment was amplified from the tree with severe symptoms, from two of the four mild symptomatic trees, and from one of the symptomless trees. The amplicon from the tree exhibiting severe symptoms was cloned into pMD18-T (Takara, Dalian, China). Six clones were sequenced (Invitrogen, Beijing, China) and found to be 99.9 to 100% identical. One sequence was deposited in GenBank as Accession No. KT373979. This sequence was mapped to 3229 reads (approximately 26-fold coverage) with an average length of 23.6 nt (length fraction, 0.94; similarity fraction, 1.0). Phylogenetic analysis of the CP sequences of CLBV isolates in GenBank and other Betaflexiviridae family members using MEGA6. 0 (Tamura et al. 2013) showed that the cherry isolate was most closely related to a citrus isolate (NC_003877, type isolate) and a kiwi isolate (JN900477). With other isolates, they formed a cluster distinct from other viruses of Betaflexiviridae. The CP gene of the cherry isolate shares 87.6% and 88.3% sequence identity with the citrus and kiwi isolates, respectively, indicating that it is a distinct variant of CLBV. Its MP gene shares higher identities (citrus, 95.6%; kiwi, 94.2%). Thus, CLBV can infect sweet cherry, and the sweet cherry isolate is a novel strain. To our knowledge, this is the first report of the CLBV infection in sweet cherry trees.