Molecular characterization of divergent isolates of Citrus bent leaf viroid (CBLVd) from citrus cultivars of Punjab, Pakistan
    
Yazarlar (14)
Amjad Ali
Ummad Ud Umar
Syed Atif Hasan Naqvi
Muhammad Taimoor Shakeel
Muhammad Nouman Tahir
Muhammad Fahad Khan
Muhammad Tanveer Altaf
Fatih Ölmez
Türkiye
Abdelfattah A. Dababat
Zia Ul Haq
Muhammad Azhar Nadeem
Türkiye
Prof. Dr. Rüştü HATİPOĞLU Kırşehir Ahi Evran Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Faheem Shahzad Baloch
Türkiye
Yong Suk Chung
Makale Türü Açık Erişim Özgün Makale (SSCI, AHCI, SCI, SCI-Exp dergilerinde yayınlanan tam makale)
Dergi Adı FRONTIERS IN GENETICS (Q2)
Dergi ISSN 1664-8021 Wos Dergi Scopus Dergi
Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler SCI-Expanded
Makale Dili İngilizce Basım Tarihi 01-2023
Cilt / Sayı / Sayfa 13 / 13 / 1104635–1104635 DOI 10.3389/fgene.2022.1104635
Makale Linki doi: 10.3389/fgene.2022.1104635
Özet
Citrus viroid infection is emerging as a serious threat because of its efficient systemic movement within the host plant and its quick spread due to contaminated pruning tools. A survey was conducted to investigate the primary distribution and molecular characterization of Citrus bent leaf viroid (CBLVd) and its variants in different citrus cultivars. A total of 154 symptomatic citrus samples were collected and detected by RT‒PCR with newly designed specific primers with the incidence of 36.33%. During biological indexing study on Etrog citron, expressions of reduced leaf size, yellowing with a light green pattern, and bending were observed. Amplified products were sequenced and analyzed using a nucleotide BLAST search, which showed 98% homology with other CBLVd isolates. The results of the phylogenetic tree analysis showed the presence of two main groups (A and B), with the predominant variants of CBLVd, i.e., CVd-I-LSS (Citrus viroid Low Sequence Similarity) sequences, clustering in subgroup A1 along with newly detected CVd-I-LSS from Palestinian sweet lime (Citrus limettioides), which has been identified as a new host of CVd-I-LSS in Pakistan. Further analysis of the sequences in subgroup A1 showed that the variant of CVd-I-LSS infecting citrus cultivars had a close relationship with isolates reported from China, Japan, and Iran, which may have resulted from the exchange of planting material. This study also unveiled the variability in nucleotide sequences of CBLVd, which made it unable to be detected by old primers. The results of this study indicate that the widespread presence of divergent variants of CBLVd is a major concern …
Anahtar Kelimeler
biological indexing | RT-PCR | sequencing analysis | phylogenetic analysis | citrus orchards