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Title: RASPBERRY MOSAIC DISEASE, AN EXPANDING VIRUS UNIVERSE

Author
item HALGREN, A - OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
item TZANETAKIS, I - OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
item Martin, Robert

Submitted to: Phytopathology
Publication Type: Abstract Only
Publication Acceptance Date: 5/20/2005
Publication Date: 6/5/2005
Citation: Halgren, A., Tzanetakis, I.E., Martin, R.R. 2005. Raspberry mosaic disease, an expanding virus universe. Phytopathology. 95:S39.

Interpretive Summary:

Technical Abstract: Raspberries are susceptible to multiple viruses, some of unknown etiology. Four of them are spread almost exclusively by aphids in the genus Amphorophora and make up the raspberry mosaic complex, which consists of Black raspberry necrosis, Rubus yellow net, Raspberry leaf spot, and Raspberry leaf mottle viruses; the latter two are found predominantly in the United Kingdom, and are uncharacterized in terms of particle morphology, serology or nucleotide sequence. We propose that the mosaic complex may contain several additional viruses for which we recently have obtained partial sequence information. The source of these viruses has been plant material from the National Clonal Germplasm Repository in Corvallis, Oregon and commercial Rubus fields. These viruses include a virus with homology to the fungi-infecting Totiviruses from black raspberry and a closterovirus and an insect-like virus from red raspberry ‘Glen Clova’. RT-PCR detection tests have revealed the presence of these new viruses in red and black raspberry. Further research is being conducted to determine the distribution these of viruses and possible synergistic affects that result from mixed infections. Additionally, the RT-PCR tests developed for these viruses will be used to determine if they are the causal agents of Black raspberry necrosis, Raspberry leaf spot or Raspberry leaf mottle diseases.