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Osei-Adu J, Aidoo R, Fialor SC, Ennin SA, Osei K, Asante BO, Danso-Abbeam G. Impact of positive selection technology on seed yam productivity. Heliyon 2024; 10:e30397. [PMID: 38711643 PMCID: PMC11070855 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e30397] [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: 06/28/2023] [Revised: 04/22/2024] [Accepted: 04/25/2024] [Indexed: 05/08/2024] Open
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Positive Selection (PS) technique has been shown to reduce virus infection and increase yields, however there is insufficient empirical evidence on how this technology affects seed yam farm productivity. This study employed Propensity Score Matching (PSM) technique to evaluate the impact of PS on seed yam yields of 368 farmers randomly selected from Ghana and Nigeria. The findings showed that educational attainment, distance from the farm to the nearest market, cropping patterns, and other factors influenced farmers' adoption of PS. Furthermore, the adoption of PS technology resulted in a 16.98 % boost in farm productivity for PS seed yam farmers compared to their productivity without the technology. It is of the utmost importance that PS adoption be supported by developing tailored training materials for farmers to improve their use of the PS technology.
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- Jonas Osei-Adu
- Council for Scientific and Industrial Research - Crops Research Institute (CSIR-CRI), Kumasi, Ghana
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- Department of Agricultural Economics, Agribusiness and Extension, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
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- Department of Agricultural Economics, Agribusiness and Extension, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
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- Council for Scientific and Industrial Research - Crops Research Institute (CSIR-CRI), Kumasi, Ghana
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- Council for Scientific and Industrial Research - Crops Research Institute (CSIR-CRI), Kumasi, Ghana
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- Department of Agricultural Economics, Agribusiness and Extension, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
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- Department of Agribusiness, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana
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Festus RO, Seal SE, Prempeh R, Quain MD, Silva G. Improved Reverse Transcription Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification (RT-LAMP) for the Rapid and Sensitive Detection of Yam mosaic virus. Viruses 2023; 15:1592. [PMID: 37515278 PMCID: PMC10383231 DOI: 10.3390/v15071592] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2023] [Revised: 07/14/2023] [Accepted: 07/19/2023] [Indexed: 07/30/2023] Open
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Yam (Dioscorea spp.) productivity is constrained significantly by the lack of a formal seed system. Vegetative propagation, through tuber setts as 'seed' yams, encourages the recycling of virus-infected planting materials, contributing to high virus incidence and yield losses. Efforts are ongoing to increase the production of high-quality seed yams in a formal seed system to reduce virus-induced yield losses and enhance the crop's productivity and food security. Specific and sensitive diagnostic tests are imperative to prevent the multiplication of virus-infected materials contributing to a sustainable seed yam certification system. During routine indexing of yam accessions, discrepancies were observed between the results obtained from the reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification (RT-LAMP) test and those from reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR); RT-LAMP failed to detect Yam mosaic virus (YMV) in some samples that tested positive by RT-PCR. This prompted the design of a new set of LAMP primers, YMV1-OPT primers. These primers detected as little as 0.1 fg/µL of purified RNA obtained from a YMV-infected plant, a sensitivity equivalent to that obtained with RT-PCR. RT-LAMP using YMV1-OPT primers is recommended for all future virus-indexing of seed yams for YMV, offering a rapid, sensitive, and cost-effective approach.
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- Ruth O Festus
- Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich, Central Avenue, Chatham Maritime, Kent ME4 4TB, UK
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- Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich, Central Avenue, Chatham Maritime, Kent ME4 4TB, UK
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- Council for Scientific and Industrial Research-Crops Research Institute, Fumesua, Kumasi P.O. Box 3785, Ghana
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- Council for Scientific and Industrial Research-Crops Research Institute, Fumesua, Kumasi P.O. Box 3785, Ghana
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- Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich, Central Avenue, Chatham Maritime, Kent ME4 4TB, UK
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Diouf MB, Guyader S, Nopoly MM, Gaspard O, Filloux D, Candresse T, Marais A, Teycheney PY, Umber M. Molecular diversity of yam virus Y and identification of banana mild mosaic virus isolates infecting yam (Dioscorea spp.). Arch Virol 2023; 168:180. [PMID: 37311875 DOI: 10.1007/s00705-023-05809-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2023] [Accepted: 05/02/2023] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Two members of the family Betaflexiviridae associated with yam (Dioscorea spp.) have been described so far: yam latent virus (YLV) and yam virus Y (YVY). However, their geographical distribution and molecular diversity remain poorly documented. Using a nested RT-PCR assay, we detected YVY in D. alata, D. bulbifera, D. cayenensis, D. rotundata, and D. trifida in Guadeloupe, and in D. rotundata in Côte d'Ivoire, thus extending the known host range of this virus and geographical distribution. Using amplicon sequencing, we determined that the molecular diversity of YVY in the yam samples analyzed in this work ranged between 0.0 and 29.1% and that this diversity is partially geographically structured. We also identified three isolates of banana mild mosaic virus (BanMMV) infecting D. alata in Guadeloupe, providing the first evidence for BanMMV infection in yam.
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- Mame Boucar Diouf
- INRAE, UR ASTRO, 97170, Petit‑Bourg, Guadeloupe, France
- CIRAD, UMR AGAP Institut, 97130, Capesterre Belle Eau, France
- UMR AGAP Institut, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, 97130, Capesterre Belle Eau, France
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- CIRAD, UMR PHIM, 34090, Montpellier, France
- PHIM Plant Health Institute, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, IRD, 34090, Montpellier, France
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- INRAE, Univ. Bordeaux, UMR BFP, CS20032, 33882, Villenave d'Ornon Cedex, France
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- INRAE, Univ. Bordeaux, UMR BFP, CS20032, 33882, Villenave d'Ornon Cedex, France
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- CIRAD, UMR PVBMT, 97410, Saint-Pierre, La Réunion, France
- UMR PVBMT, Université de la Réunion, 97410, Saint-Pierre, La Réunion, France
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- INRAE, UR ASTRO, 97170, Petit‑Bourg, Guadeloupe, France.
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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
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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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Epidemiology of Yam Viruses in Guadeloupe: Role of Cropping Practices and Seed-Tuber Supply. Viruses 2022; 14:v14112366. [PMID: 36366464 PMCID: PMC9692558 DOI: 10.3390/v14112366] [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: 10/08/2022] [Revised: 10/20/2022] [Accepted: 10/24/2022] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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The epidemiology of yam viruses remains largely unexplored. We present a large-scale epidemiological study of yam viruses in Guadeloupe based on the analysis of 1124 leaf samples collected from yams and weeds. We addressed the prevalence of cucumber mosaic virus (CMV), Cordyline virus 1 (CoV1), Dioscorea mosaic associated virus (DMaV), yam asymptomatic virus 1 (YaV1), yam mosaic virus (YMV), yam mild mosaic virus (YMMV), badnaviruses, macluraviruses and potexviruses, and the key epidemiological drivers of these viruses. We provide evidence that several weeds are reservoirs of YMMV and that YMMV isolates infecting weeds cluster together with those infecting yams, pointing to the role of weeds in the epidemiology of YMMV. We report the occurrence of yam chlorotic necrosis virus (YCNV) in Guadeloupe, the introduction of YMMV isolates through the importation of yam tubers, and the absence of vertical transmission of YaV1. We identified specific effects on some cropping practices, such as weed management and the use of chemical pesticides, on the occurrence of a few viruses, but no crop-related factor had a strong or general effect on the overall epidemiology of the targeted viruses. Overall, our work provides insights into the epidemiology of yam viruses that will help design more efficient control strategies.
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