A New Graft Transmissible Disease Found in Nagami Kumquat
A New Graft Transmissible Disease Found in Nagami Kumquat
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1984
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L. Navarro;J. Pina;J. F. Ballester-Olmos;P. Moreno;M. Cambra
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L. Navarro;J. Pina;J. F. Ballester-Olmos;P. Moreno;M. Cambra
An undescribed graf t transmissible disease has been found on Nagami kumquat. Three types of symptoms have been observed: 1) vein clearing on Pineapple sweet orange, Troyer citrange, sour orange, Marsh grapefruit, Orlando tangelo, Dweet tangor and Alemow, but not on Mexican lime, Etrog citron, Cleopatra mandarin, rough lemon, Eureka lemon, Volkamer lemon, trifoliate orange, Nules clementine and Parson's special mandarin; 2) stem pitting on Etrog citron, but not on the other species and hybrids; and 3) graft incompatibility of Nagami kumquat on Troyer citrange, but not on rough lemon. Vein clearing symptoms were more severe in seedlings grown a t 1825OC than a t 27-32OC. Stem pitting was induced only a t 18-25OC. Some kumquat plants obtained by shoot-tip grafting in vitro were compatible with Troyer citrange, and did not induce vein clearing, but still produced stem pitting. These data suggest the presence of more than one pathogen on the original plants. Preliminary electron microscopy studies have shown the presence of some virus-like particles about 800 nm long in extracts of infected Troyer citrange and sweet orange plants. Diseased kumquats gave negative reactions by ELISA using four different tristeza antisera. A Citrus Variety Improvement Program (CVIPS) was started in Spain in 1975 to recover virus-free plants from all commercial varieties and other citrus species, valuable for research work or for a germplasm bank (1, 2, 3). In this program, Nagami kumquat from two origins was selected and indexed for virus content. One of the kumquat sources was selected from a private variety collection a t Alhama, Murcia, Spain, (Alhama kumquat), and the other was introduced from the Station des Recherches Agrumicoles a t Saint Giuliano, Corsica, France, (SRA153, kumquat), kindly provided by Dr. Vogel). Both kumquats were propagated on rough lemon and Troyer citrange in the greenhouse and graft-inoculated to Mexican lime, Pineapple sweet orange, Etrog citron and Parsons Special mandarin to test for tristeza, psorosis and/or concave gum, exocortis and xyloporosis, respectively. Alhama kumquat indexed negative for xyloporosis, positive for tristeza and exocortis and gave conspicuous vein clearing on Pineapple. SRA-153 kumquat indexed negative for xyloporosis, tristeza and exocortis, but i t also induced vein clearing on Pineapple sweet orange. This type of vein clearing symptoms on sweet orange are usually not induced by tristeza in Spain. Furthermore, SRA-153 kumquat indexed negative for tristeza on Mexican lime and by ELISA. Thus, the possibility existed that vein clearing induced on Pineapple by the two kumquat sources was due to a new pathogen. In addition, both kumquats grew well on rough lemon but were apparently incompatible with Troyer citrange. In this paper we describe experiments directed to determine the characteristics of the agent or agents inducing vein clearing on Pineapple and to establish a possible relationship between those agents and the incompatibility between Nagami kumquat and Troyer citrange. In most experiments described below we used SRA-153 kumquat to avoid possible interference from tristeza and exocortis which were present in Alhama kumquat. EXPERIMENTS AND RESULTS Citrus species and varieties susceptible to Nagami kumquat inOther Graft-Transmissible Agents oculum. Four seedlings of each of the citrus species and varieties listed in table 1 were graft-inoculated with two bark patches from SRA-153 kumquat and incubated in a greenhouse a t 18-25°C. New leaves were observed in each flush for symptoms, and eight months after inoculation plants were peeled to look for stem pitting. Vein clearing symptoms, similar to those induced by tristeza on Mexican lime, were induced not only on Pineapple (fig. I), but also on Comuna sweet orange, Troyer citrange (fig. 2), Alemow, Marsh grapefruit, Orlando tangelo, Dweet tangor, sour orange, and Cleopatra mandarin. Stem pitting symptoms, similar to those caused by tristeza, were induced only in Etrog citron (fig. 3). Vein clearing usually appeared in half to fully expanded leaves in the first flush (one month or less after grafting) and sometimes later disappeared. In subsequent flushes,