Prevalence of Lettuce mosaic virus - common strain on three lettuce producing areas from São Paulo State

• Autor(a) principal: Firmino,Ana Carolina
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Outros Autores: Krause-Sakate,Renate, Pavan,Marcelo Agenor, Silva,Norberto da, Hanai,Sérgio Minoru, Anbo,Roberto Hiroto, Nietzsche,Thomas, Le Gall,Olivier
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Summa phytopathologica (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-54052008000200009
• topic: Potyvirus; LMV; RT-PCR; detection; resistance breaking

LMV is one of the most important pathogens of lettuce worldwide. Based on their ability to overcome the resistance genes mo1¹ and mo1² in lettuce, isolates can be divided in two types: LMV-Most, which can infect and are seed-borne in cultivars containing the mo1 gene and LMV-Common, which do not cause symptoms on these cultivars and are seed transmitted only in susceptible cultivars. To evaluate the occurrence of these two types of LMV isolates, a survey was carried out during 2002-2005 in three lettuce production areas from São Paulo State. Total RNA was used for the diagnosis of LMV isolates by RT-PCR using universal primers for the variable N-terminus of the capsid protein, in the 3' end of the genome. Positives samples were analyzed by a second RT-PCR using specifics primers for LMV-Most isolates designed to amplify a fragment from the central region (CI-VPg) of the genome. A total of 1362 samples showing mosaic symptoms were collected and 504 (37.29 %) were positives for LMV. On susceptible lettuce cultivars, LMV-Common was prevalent (77.3%). LMV-Most was found frequently associated with tolerant (mo1¹) lettuce cultivars. Susceptible cultivars correspond today for most of the area of lettuce production. So, despite the ability of LMV-Most isolates to overcome the resistance provided by the recessive mo1¹ gene, they are not prevalent in the conditions of São Paulo State.