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Determinants of Virus Variation, Evolution, and Host Adaptation. Pathogens 2022; 11:pathogens11091039. [PMID: 36145471 PMCID: PMC9501407 DOI: 10.3390/pathogens11091039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2022] [Revised: 09/06/2022] [Accepted: 09/09/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
Abstract
Virus evolution is the change in the genetic structure of a viral population over time and results in the emergence of new viral variants, strains, and species with novel biological properties, including adaptation to new hosts. There are host, vector, environmental, and viral factors that contribute to virus evolution. To achieve or fine tune compatibility and successfully establish infection, viruses adapt to a particular host species or to a group of species. However, some viruses are better able to adapt to diverse hosts, vectors, and environments. Viruses generate genetic diversity through mutation, reassortment, and recombination. Plant viruses are exposed to genetic drift and selection pressures by host and vector factors, and random variants or those with a competitive advantage are fixed in the population and mediate the emergence of new viral strains or species with novel biological properties. This process creates a footprint in the virus genome evident as the preferential accumulation of substitutions, insertions, or deletions in areas of the genome that function as determinants of host adaptation. Here, with respect to plant viruses, we review the current understanding of the sources of variation, the effect of selection, and its role in virus evolution and host adaptation.
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Kawakubo S, Tomitaka Y, Tomimura K, Koga R, Matsuoka H, Uematsu S, Yamashita K, Ho SYW, Ohshima K. The Recombinogenic History of Turnip Mosaic Potyvirus Reveals its Introduction to Japan in the 19th Century. Virus Evol 2022; 8:veac060. [PMID: 35903148 PMCID: PMC9320297 DOI: 10.1093/ve/veac060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2022] [Revised: 06/09/2022] [Accepted: 06/24/2022] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
Abstract
Characterizing the detailed spatial and temporal dynamics of plant pathogens can provide
valuable information for crop protection strategies. However, the epidemiological
characteristics and evolutionary trajectories of pathogens can differ markedly from one
country to another. The most widespread and important virus of brassica vegetables, turnip
mosaic virus (TuMV), causes serious plant diseases in Japan. We collected 317 isolates of
TuMV from Raphanus and Brassica plants throughout Japan
over nearly five decades. Genomic sequences from these isolates were combined with
published sequences. We identified a total of eighty-eight independent recombination
events in Japanese TuMV genomes and found eighty-two recombination-type patterns in Japan.
We assessed the evolution of TuMV through space and time using whole and partial genome
sequences of both nonrecombinants and recombinants. Our results suggest that TuMV was
introduced into Japan after the country emerged from its isolationist policy (1639–1854)
in the Edo period and then dispersed to other parts of Japan in the 20th century. The
results of our analyses reveal the complex structure of the TuMV population in Japan and
emphasize the importance of identifying recombination events in the genome. Our study also
provides an example of surveying the epidemiology of a virus that is highly
recombinogenic.
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Affiliation(s)
- Shusuke Kawakubo
- Laboratory of Plant Virology, Department of Biological Resource Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Saga University , 1-banchi, Honjo-machi, Saga, Saga 840-8502, Japan
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- Laboratory of Plant Virology, Department of Biological Resource Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Saga University , 1-banchi, Honjo-machi, Saga, Saga 840-8502, Japan
- Institute for Plant Protection, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization , 2-1-18 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8666, Japan
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- Laboratory of Plant Virology, Department of Biological Resource Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Saga University , 1-banchi, Honjo-machi, Saga, Saga 840-8502, Japan
- Institute of Fruit Tree and Tea Science, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization , 485-6 Okitsu Nakacho, Shimizu, Shizuoka 424-0292, Japan
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- Laboratory of Plant Virology, Department of Biological Resource Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Saga University , 1-banchi, Honjo-machi, Saga, Saga 840-8502, Japan
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- Laboratory of Plant Virology, Department of Biological Resource Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Saga University , 1-banchi, Honjo-machi, Saga, Saga 840-8502, Japan
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- Laboratory of Agro-Environmental Science, Warm Region Horticulture Institute, Chiba Prefectural Agriculture and Forestry Research Center , 1762 Yamamoto, Tateyama, Chiba 294-0014, Japan
- Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Department of Bioregulation and Bio- interaction, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology , 3-5-8 Saiwai-cho, Fuchu, Tokyo 183-8509, Japan
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- Vegetable Research Institute, Aomori Prefectural Industrial Technology Research Center , 91 Yanagisawa, Inuotose, Rokunohe, Aomori 033-0071, Japan
- Fukuchi Garlic R&S, 4-92 Akane , Fukuda, Nanbu-machi, Aomori 039-0815, Japan
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney , Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
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- Laboratory of Plant Virology, Department of Biological Resource Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Saga University , 1-banchi, Honjo-machi, Saga, Saga 840-8502, Japan
- The United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Kagoshima University , 1-21-24 Korimoto, Kagoshima, Kagoshima 890-0065, Japan
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Kwon SJ, Han SJ, Kim MH, Jang SY, Choi JS, Seo JK. Ethylene emitted by viral pathogen-infected pepper ( Capsicum annuum L.) plants is a volatile chemical cue that attracts aphid vectors. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 13:994314. [PMID: 36247604 PMCID: PMC9559363 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.994314] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2022] [Accepted: 09/07/2022] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Plant viruses are obligate intracellular pathogens, and most depend on insect vectors for transmission between plants. Viral infection causes various physiological and metabolic changes in host traits, which subsequently influence the behavior and fitness of the insect vectors. Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV), one of the most widespread pathogens in pepper (Capsicum annuum L.), is transmitted by aphid vectors in a non-persistent manner. Here, we examined whether CMV infection in pepper affects the behavior of aphid vectors (Myzus persicae and Aphis glycines) in pepper. Aphid preference test revealed that significantly more aphids were attracted to CMV-infected pepper plants than to healthy plants. Comparative transcriptome analysis revealed a significant activation of the ethylene biosynthesis pathway in CMV-infected pepper plants. Indeed, gas chromatography analysis demonstrated that ethylene emission was significantly increased by CMV infection in pepper plants. Elevated ethylene emission in ethephon-treated healthy pepper increased their attractiveness to aphids. In contrast, aphid preference decreased after chemical inhibition of ethylene biosynthesis in CMV-infected pepper plants. Our results suggest that the ethylene emitted by CMV infection is a volatile cue that regulates the attractiveness of pepper plants to M. persicae and A. glycines.
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- Sun-Jung Kwon
- Institutes of Green Bio Science and Technology, Seoul National University, Pyeongchang, South Korea
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- Department of International Agricultural Technology, Seoul National University, Pyeongchang, South Korea
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- Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of International Agricultural Technology, Seoul National University, Pyeongchang, South Korea
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- Institutes of Green Bio Science and Technology, Seoul National University, Pyeongchang, South Korea
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- Institutes of Green Bio Science and Technology, Seoul National University, Pyeongchang, South Korea
- Department of International Agricultural Technology, Seoul National University, Pyeongchang, South Korea
- Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
- Integrated Major in Global Smart Farm, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
- *Correspondence: Jang-Kyun Seo,
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Aphid Transmission of Potyvirus: The Largest Plant-Infecting RNA Virus Genus. Viruses 2020; 12:v12070773. [PMID: 32708998 PMCID: PMC7411817 DOI: 10.3390/v12070773] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2020] [Revised: 07/12/2020] [Accepted: 07/15/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Potyviruses are the largest group of plant infecting RNA viruses that cause significant losses in a wide range of crops across the globe. The majority of viruses in the genus Potyvirus are transmitted by aphids in a non-persistent, non-circulative manner and have been extensively studied vis-à-vis their structure, taxonomy, evolution, diagnosis, transmission, and molecular interactions with hosts. This comprehensive review exclusively discusses potyviruses and their transmission by aphid vectors, specifically in the light of several virus, aphid and plant factors, and how their interplay influences potyviral binding in aphids, aphid behavior and fitness, host plant biochemistry, virus epidemics, and transmission bottlenecks. We present the heatmap of the global distribution of potyvirus species, variation in the potyviral coat protein gene, and top aphid vectors of potyviruses. Lastly, we examine how the fundamental understanding of these multi-partite interactions through multi-omics approaches is already contributing to, and can have future implications for, devising effective and sustainable management strategies against aphid-transmitted potyviruses to global agriculture.
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