Insight into resistance to ' Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus,' associated with Huanglongbing, in Oceanian citrus genotypes.

Autor: Alves MN; Fundo de Defesa da Citricultura, Araraquara, Brazil.; Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias (FCAV), Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Jaboticabal, Brazil., Raiol-Junior LL; Fundo de Defesa da Citricultura, Araraquara, Brazil.; Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária, Cruz das Almas, Brazil., Girardi EA; Fundo de Defesa da Citricultura, Araraquara, Brazil.; Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária, Cruz das Almas, Brazil., Miranda M; CIRAD, UMR AGAP Institut, Montpellier, France.; AGAP Institut, Univ. Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, Montpellier, France., Wulff NA; Fundo de Defesa da Citricultura, Araraquara, Brazil., Carvalho EV; Fundo de Defesa da Citricultura, Araraquara, Brazil.; Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária, Cruz das Almas, Brazil., Lopes SA; Fundo de Defesa da Citricultura, Araraquara, Brazil., Ferro JA; Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias (FCAV), Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Jaboticabal, Brazil., Ollitrault P; CIRAD, UMR AGAP Institut, Montpellier, France.; AGAP Institut, Univ. Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, Montpellier, France., Peña L; Fundo de Defesa da Citricultura, Araraquara, Brazil.; Instituto de Biologia Molecular y Celular de Plantas - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Frontiers in plant science [Front Plant Sci] 2022 Sep 09; Vol. 13, pp. 1009350. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Sep 09 (Print Publication: 2022).
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.1009350
Abstrakt: Huanglongbing (HLB), the most destructive citrus disease, is associated with unculturable, phloem-limited Candidatus Liberibacter species, mainly Ca. L. asiaticus (Las). Las is transmitted naturally by the insect Diaphorina citri . In a previous study, we determined that the Oceanian citrus relatives Eremocitrus glauca , Microcitrus warburgiana , Microcitrus papuana , and Microcitrus australis and three hybrids among them and Citrus were full-resistant to Las. After 2 years of evaluations, leaves of those seven genotypes remained Las-free even with their susceptible rootstock being infected. However, Las was detected in their stem bark above the scion-rootstock graft union. Aiming to gain an understanding of the full-resistance phenotype, new experiments were carried out with the challenge-inoculated Oceanian citrus genotypes through which we evaluated: (1) Las acquisition by D. citri fed onto them; (2) Las infection in sweet orange plants grafted with bark or budwood from them; (3) Las infection in sweet orange plants top-grafted onto them; (4) Las infection in new shoots from rooted plants of them; and (5) Las infection in new shoots of them after drastic back-pruning. Overall, results showed that insects that fed on plants from the Oceanian citrus genotypes, their canopies, new flushes, and leaves from rooted cuttings evaluated remained quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qPCR)-negative. Moreover, their budwood pieces were unable to infect sweet orange through grafting. Furthermore, sweet orange control leaves resulted infected when insects fed onto them and graft-receptor susceptible plants. Genomic and morphological analysis of the Oceanian genotypes corroborated that E. glauca and M. warburgiana are pure species while our M. australis accession is an M. australis × M. inodora hybrid and M. papuana is probably a M. papuana × M. warburgiana hybrid. E. glauca × C. sinensis hybrid was found coming from a cross between E. glauca and mandarin or tangor. Eremocitrus × Microcitrus hybrid is a complex admixture of M. australasica , M. australis , and E. glauca while the last hybrid is an M. australasica × M. australis admixture. Confirmation of consistent full resistance in these genotypes with proper validation of their genomic parentages is essential to map properly genomic regions for breeding programs aimed to generate new Citrus -like cultivars yielding immunity to HLB.
Competing Interests: The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
(Copyright © 2022 Alves, Raiol-Junior, Girardi, Miranda, Wulff, Carvalho, Lopes, Ferro, Ollitrault and Peña.)
Databáze: MEDLINE