Home Acta Virologica 2022 Acta Virologica Vol.66, No.2, p. 174 – 181, 2022

Journal info


Quarterly,
Founded: 1957
ISSN 0001-723X
E-ISSN 1336-2305

Published in English

Impact Factor = 1.82

Aims and Scope
Abstracted and Indexed

Select Journal







Webshop Cart

Your Cart is currently empty.

Info: Your browser does not accept cookies. To put products into your cart and purchase them you need to enable cookies.

Acta Virologica Vol.66, No.2, p. 174 – 181, 2022

Title: Natural infection of cape gooseberry (Physalis peruviana) by the potyvirus Tamarillo leaf malformation virus (TaLMV)
Author: Erika Corrales-Cabra, Andrea Restrepo Escobar, Mónica Higuita Valencia, Yuliana Gallo García, Mauricio Marín Montoya, Pablo Gutiérrez Sánchez

Abstract: Tamarillo leaf malformation virus (TaLMV) is a potyvirus first discovered in cape gooseberry fields in Eastern, and South-western Antioquia. This virus is responsible for a very damaging disease that has resulted in significant reductions in yields and cultivated area for this crop in Colombia. Tamarillo is frequently co-cultivated with other solanaceous plants but no evidence for cross-pathogenicity of TaLMV has been found until now. In this work, we report a natural infection of cape gooseberry (Physalis peruviana L.) by TaLMV. Infection by TaLMV was detected by RNAseq screening of cape gooseberry fields and confirmed by RT-qPCR and Sanger sequencing. The sequenced genome is 99.3% identical to previously sequenced TaLMV isolates, and evidence suggests that it can accumulate at high loads in this new reported host. RT-qPCR analysis indicates that TaLMV is already widely distributed, can naturally infect other solanaceous hosts and may become an emerging threat to the cape gooseberry agroindustry, the second most important exotic fruit export in Colombia.


Keywords: high-throughput sequencing; plant virology; Potyviridae; RT-qPCR; Solanaceae
Published online: 29-Jun-2022
Year: 2022, Volume: 66, Issue: 2 Page From: 174, Page To: 181
doi:10.4149/av_2022_211


download file



© AEPress s.r.o
Copyright notice: For any permission to reproduce, archive or otherwise use the documents in the ELiS, please contact AEP.