Citrus leprosis virus N: A New Dichorhavirus Causing Citrus Leprosis Disease

Autor: Ricardo Harakava, Aline Daniele Tassi, Renato B. Salaroli, Juliana Freitas-Astúa, Elliot W. Kitajima, Camila Chabi-Jesus, Pedro Luis Ramos-González, Orlene Guerra-Peraza
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Repositório Institucional da USP (Biblioteca Digital da Produção Intelectual)
Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
instacron:USP
ISSN: 1943-7684
0031-949X
DOI: 10.1094/phyto-02-17-0042-r
Popis: Citrus leprosis (CL) is a viral disease endemic to the Western Hemisphere that produces local necrotic and chlorotic lesions on leaves, branches, and fruit and causes serious yield reduction in citrus orchards. Samples of sweet orange (Citrus × sinensis) trees showing CL symptoms were collected during a survey in noncommercial citrus areas in the southeast region of Brazil in 2013 to 2016. Transmission electron microscopy analyses of foliar lesions confirmed the presence of rod-like viral particles commonly associated with CL in the nucleus and cytoplasm of infected cells. However, every attempt to identify these particles by reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction tests failed, even though all described primers for the detection of known CL-causing cileviruses and dichorhaviruses were used. Next-generation sequencing of total RNA extracts from three symptomatic samples revealed the genome of distinct, although highly related (>92% nucleotide sequence identity), viruses whose genetic organization is similar to that of dichorhaviruses. The genome sequence of these viruses showed
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