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Ishwara Bhat A, Selvarajan R, Balasubramanian V. Emerging and Re-Emerging Diseases Caused by Badnaviruses. Pathogens 2023; 12:pathogens12020245. [PMID: 36839517 PMCID: PMC9963457 DOI: 10.3390/pathogens12020245] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2022] [Revised: 01/27/2023] [Accepted: 01/31/2023] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
Abstract
New and emerging plant diseases are caused by different pathogens including viruses that often cause significant crop losses. Badnaviruses are pararetroviruses that contain a single molecule of ds DNA genome of 7 to 9 kb in size and infect a large number of economically important crops such as banana and plantains, black pepper, cacao, citrus, grapevine, pineapple, sugarcane, sweet potato, taro, and yam, causing significant yield losses. Many of the species in the genus have a restricted host range and several of them are known to infect a single crop. Combined infections of different virus species and strains offer conditions that favor the development of new strains via recombination, especially in vegetatively propagated crops. The primary spread of badnaviruses is through vegetative propagating materials while for the secondary spread, they depend on insects such as mealybugs and aphids. Disease emerges as a consequence of the interactions between host and pathogens under favorable environmental conditions. The viral genome of the pararetroviruses is known to be integrated into the chromosome of the host and a few plants with integrants when subjected to different kinds of abiotic stress will give rise to episomal forms of the virus and cause disease. Attempts have been made to develop management strategies for badnaviruses both conventionally and using precision breeding techniques such as genome editing. Until 2016 only 32 badnavirus species infecting different crops were known, but in a span of six years, this number has gone up to 68. The current review highlights the emerging disease problems and management options for badnaviruses infecting economically important crops.
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- Alangar Ishwara Bhat
- Division of Crop Protection, ICAR-Indian Institute of Spices Research, Kozhikode 673012, Kerala, India
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- Division of Crop Protection, ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana, Trichy 620102, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Division of Crop Protection, ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana, Trichy 620102, Tamil Nadu, India
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Sharma SK, Gupta OP, Pathaw N, Sharma D, Maibam A, Sharma P, Sanasam J, Karkute SG, Kumar S, Bhattacharjee B. CRISPR-Cas-Led Revolution in Diagnosis and Management of Emerging Plant Viruses: New Avenues Toward Food and Nutritional Security. Front Nutr 2022; 8:751512. [PMID: 34977113 PMCID: PMC8716883 DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2021.751512] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2021] [Accepted: 10/31/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Plant viruses pose a serious threat to agricultural production systems worldwide. The world's population is expected to reach the 10-billion mark by 2057. Under the scenario of declining cultivable land and challenges posed by rapidly emerging and re-emerging plant pathogens, conventional strategies could not accomplish the target of keeping pace with increasing global food demand. Gene-editing techniques have recently come up as promising options to enable precise changes in genomes with greater efficiency to achieve the target of higher crop productivity. Of genome engineering tools, clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated (Cas) proteins have gained much popularity, owing to their simplicity, reproducibility, and applicability in a wide range of species. Also, the application of different Cas proteins, such as Cas12a, Cas13a, and Cas9 nucleases, has enabled the development of more robust strategies for the engineering of antiviral mechanisms in many plant species. Recent studies have revealed the use of various CRISPR-Cas systems to either directly target a viral gene or modify a host genome to develop viral resistance in plants. This review provides a comprehensive record of the use of the CRISPR-Cas system in the development of antiviral resistance in plants and discusses its applications in the overall enhancement of productivity and nutritional landscape of cultivated plant species. Furthermore, the utility of this technique for the detection of various plant viruses could enable affordable and precise in-field or on-site detection. The futuristic potential of CRISPR-Cas technologies and possible challenges with their use and application are highlighted. Finally, the future of CRISPR-Cas in sustainable management of viral diseases, and its practical utility and regulatory guidelines in different parts of the globe are discussed systematically.
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- Division of Quality & Basic Science, ICAR-Indian Institute of Wheat and Barley Research, Karnal, India
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- ICAR Research Complex for NEH Region, Manipur Centre, Imphal, India
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- Crop Improvement Division, ICAR-Vivekananda Parvatiya Krishi Anusandhan Sansthan, Almora, India
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- ICAR Research Complex for NEH Region, Manipur Centre, Imphal, India
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- Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India
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- ICAR Research Complex for NEH Region, Manipur Centre, Imphal, India
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- Division of Crop Improvement, ICAR-Indian Institute of Vegetable Research, Varanasi, India
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Odisha University of Agriculture & Technology, Bhubaneswar, India
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A Complex of Badnavirus Species Infecting Cacao Reveals Mixed Infections, Extensive Genomic Variability, and Interspecific Recombination. Viruses 2020; 12:v12040443. [PMID: 32295173 PMCID: PMC7232428 DOI: 10.3390/v12040443] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2020] [Revised: 04/09/2020] [Accepted: 04/11/2020] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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The incidence of cacao swollen shoot disease (CSSD) in cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) has increased in West Africa since ~2000. To investigate the genomic and species diversity of the CSSD-badnaviruses infecting cacao in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, symptomatic leaves were subjected to high-throughput sequencing. Among the 30 newly determined genomes, three badnaviruses were identified, Cacao swollen shoot Togo B virus (CSSTBV), Cacao swollen shoot CD virus, and Cacao swollen shoot CE virus (CSSCEV). The phylogenetic trees reconstructed for the reverse transcriptase (RT) and ribonuclease H (RNase H) sequences were incongruent with the complete viral genomes, which had the most robust statistical support. Recombination seems to be involved in the CSSD-badnavirus diversification. The genomic diversity varied among different CSSD-badnaviruses, with CSSTBV showing the lowest nucleotide diversity (π = 0.06236), and CSSCEV exhibiting the greatest variability (π = 0.21911). Evidence of strong purifying selection was found in the coding regions of the CSSTBV isolates.
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Petersen SM, Keith C, Austin K, Howard S, Su L, Qiu W. A Natural Reservoir and Transmission Vector of Grapevine Vein Clearing Virus. PLANT DISEASE 2019; 103:571-577. [PMID: 30484754 DOI: 10.1094/pdis-06-18-1073-re] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Grapevine vein clearing virus (GVCV) is associated with a vein-clearing and vine-decline disease. In this study, we surveyed wild Ampelopsis cordata from the Vitaceae family and found that 31% (35 of 113) of native A. cordata plants are infected with GVCV. The full-length genome sequence of one GVCV isolate from A. cordata shared 99.8% identical nucleotides with an isolate from a nearby cultivated 'Chardonel' grapevine, suggesting the occurrence of an insect vector. To identify a vector, we collected Aphis illinoisensis (common name: grape aphids) from wild A. cordata plants and detected GVCV in the aphid populations. We found that A. illinoisensis is capable of transmitting GVCV from infected A. cordata to Chardonel grapevines in the greenhouse. Upon transmission, GVCV caused severe symptoms on the infected Chardonel 45 days post transmission. We conclude that wild GVCV isolates from A. cordata are capable of inducing a severe disease on cultivated grapevines once they spread from native A. cordata to vineyards via grape aphids. The discovery of a natural reservoir and an insect vector of GVCV provides timely knowledge for disease management in vineyards and critical clues on viral evolution and epidemiology.
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- Sylvia M Petersen
- Center for Grapevine Biotechnology, William H. Darr College of Agriculture, Missouri State University, Mountain Grove, MO 65711
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- Center for Grapevine Biotechnology, William H. Darr College of Agriculture, Missouri State University, Mountain Grove, MO 65711
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- Center for Grapevine Biotechnology, William H. Darr College of Agriculture, Missouri State University, Mountain Grove, MO 65711
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- Center for Grapevine Biotechnology, William H. Darr College of Agriculture, Missouri State University, Mountain Grove, MO 65711
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- Center for Grapevine Biotechnology, William H. Darr College of Agriculture, Missouri State University, Mountain Grove, MO 65711
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- Center for Grapevine Biotechnology, William H. Darr College of Agriculture, Missouri State University, Mountain Grove, MO 65711
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Ahmad K, Sun SR, Chen JL, Huang MT, Fu HY, Gao SJ. Presence of Diverse Sugarcane Bacilliform Viruses Infecting Sugarcane in China Revealed by Pairwise Sequence Comparisons and Phylogenetic Analysis. THE PLANT PATHOLOGY JOURNAL 2019; 35:41-50. [PMID: 30828278 PMCID: PMC6385652 DOI: 10.5423/ppj.oa.08.2018.0156] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2018] [Revised: 09/16/2018] [Accepted: 10/04/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Sugarcane bacilliform viruses (SCBV), which belong to the genus Badnavirus, family Caulimoviridae, are an important DNA virus complex that infects sugarcane. To explore the genetic diversity of the sugarcane-infecting badnavirus complex in China, we tested 392 sugarcane leaf samples collected from Fujian, Yunnan, and Hainan provinces for the occurrence of SCBV by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays using published primers SCBV-F and SCBV-R that target the reverse transcriptase/ribonuclease H (RT/RNase H) regions of the viral genome. A total of 111 PCR-amplified fragments (726 bp) from 63 SCBV-positive samples were cloned and sequenced. A neighbor-joining phylogenetic tree was constructed based on the SCBV sequences from this study and 34 published sequences representing 18 different phylogroups or genotypes (SCBV-A to -R). All SCBV-tested isolates could be classified into 20 SCBV phylogenetic groups from SCBV-A to -T. Of nine SCBV phylogroups reported in this study, two novel phylogroups, SCBV-S and SCBV-T, that share 90.0-93.2% sequence identity and show 0.07-0.11 genetic distance with each other in the RT/ RNase H region, are proposed. SCBV-S had 57.6-92.2% sequence identity and 0.09-0.66 genetic distance, while SCBV-T had 58.4-90.0% sequence identity and 0.11-0.63 genetic distance compared with the published SCBV phylogroups. Additionally, two other Badnavirus species, Sugarcane bacilliform MO virus (SCBMOV) and Sugarcane bacilliform IM virus (SCBIMV), which originally clustered in phylogenetic groups SCBV-E and SCBV-F, respectively, are first reported in China. Our findings will help to understand the level of genetic heterogeneity present in the complex of Badnavirus species that infect sugarcane.
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- Kashif Ahmad
- National Engineering Research Center of Sugarcane, Fujian Agricultural and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002,
China
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- National Engineering Research Center of Sugarcane, Fujian Agricultural and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002,
China
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- Guangzhou Sugarcane Industry Research Institute, Guangzhou 510316, Guangdong,
China
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- National Engineering Research Center of Sugarcane, Fujian Agricultural and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002,
China
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- National Engineering Research Center of Sugarcane, Fujian Agricultural and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002,
China
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- National Engineering Research Center of Sugarcane, Fujian Agricultural and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002,
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Sukal AC, Kidanemariam DB, Dale JL, Harding RM, James AP. Assessment and optimization of rolling circle amplification protocols for the detection and characterization of badnaviruses. Virology 2019; 529:73-80. [PMID: 30665100 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2019.01.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2018] [Revised: 01/13/2019] [Accepted: 01/13/2019] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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The genus Badnavirus is characterized by members that are genetically and serologically heterogeneous which presents challenges for their detection and characterization. The presence of integrated badnavirus-like sequences in some host species further complicates detection using PCR-based protocols. To address these challenges, we have assessed and optimized various RCA protocols including random-primed RCA (RP-RCA), primer-spiked random-primed RCA (primer-spiked RP-RCA), directed RCA (D-RCA) and specific-primed RCA (SP-RCA). Using Dioscorea bacilliform AL virus (DBALV) as an example, we demonstrate that viral DNA amplified using the optimized D-RCA and SP-RCA protocols showed an 85-fold increase in badnavirus NGS reads compared with RP-RCA. The optimized RCA techniques described here were used to detect a range of badnaviruses infecting banana, sugar cane, taro and yam demonstrating the utility of RCA for detection of diverse badnaviruses infecting a variety of host plant species.
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- Amit C Sukal
- Centre for Tropical Crops and Biocommodities (CTCB), Faculty of Science and Engineering (SEF), Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane 4001, Australia; Centre for Pacific Crops and Trees (CePaCT), Land Resource Division (LRD), Pacific Community (SPC), Suva, Fiji
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- Centre for Tropical Crops and Biocommodities (CTCB), Faculty of Science and Engineering (SEF), Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane 4001, Australia
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- Centre for Tropical Crops and Biocommodities (CTCB), Faculty of Science and Engineering (SEF), Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane 4001, Australia
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- Centre for Tropical Crops and Biocommodities (CTCB), Faculty of Science and Engineering (SEF), Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane 4001, Australia.
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- Centre for Tropical Crops and Biocommodities (CTCB), Faculty of Science and Engineering (SEF), Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane 4001, Australia
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Jeske H. Barcoding of Plant Viruses with Circular Single-Stranded DNA Based on Rolling Circle Amplification. Viruses 2018; 10:E469. [PMID: 30200312 PMCID: PMC6164888 DOI: 10.3390/v10090469] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2018] [Revised: 08/28/2018] [Accepted: 08/30/2018] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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The experience with a diagnostic technology based on rolling circle amplification (RCA), restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analyses, and direct or deep sequencing (Circomics) over the past 15 years is surveyed for the plant infecting geminiviruses, nanoviruses and associated satellite DNAs, which have had increasing impact on agricultural and horticultural losses due to global transportation and recombination-aided diversification. Current state methods for quarantine measures are described to identify individual DNA components with great accuracy and to recognize the crucial role of the molecular viral population structure as an important factor for sustainable plant protection.
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- Holger Jeske
- Department of Molecular Biology and Plant Virology, Institute of Biomaterials and Biomolecular Systems, University of Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 57, 70550 Stuttgart, Germany.
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Stainton D, Halafihi M, Collings DA, Varsani A. Genome Sequence of Banana Streak MY Virus from the Pacific Ocean Island of Tonga. GENOME ANNOUNCEMENTS 2015; 3:e00543-15. [PMID: 26021925 PMCID: PMC4447910 DOI: 10.1128/genomea.00543-15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2015] [Accepted: 04/29/2015] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Banana streak disease is caused by a variety of banana-infecting badnaviruses. A genome of the episomal form of a banana streak MY virus was recovered from an infected banana plant sampled on Vava'u Island, Tonga, and shares >98% pairwise identity with the six other genomes available in public databases.
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- Daisy Stainton
- Biomolecular Interaction Centre and School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
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- Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Forests and Fisheries of Tonga, Nuku-alofa, Kingdom of Tonga
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- Biomolecular Interaction Centre and School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
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