Research in Plant Disease (Sep 2017)

A Survey of Viral Diseases of Proso Millet (Panicum miliaceum L.) and Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.) in South Korea

  • Hyun-Geun Min,
  • Chung Youl Park,
  • Hong-Kyu Lee,
  • Yoon-Ah Yeom,
  • Jonghee Oh,
  • Bong-Sub Kim,
  • Seungmo Lim,
  • Youngnam Yoon,
  • Su-Heon Lee

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5423/RPD.2017.23.3.262
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 23, no. 3
pp. 262 – 267

Abstract

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Throughout year 2015 to 2016, 101 proso millet and 200 sorghum samples were collected from five provinces in South Korea. The samples were subjected to paired-end RNA sequencing and further analyzed by RT-PCR. The results indicated that Rice black-streaked dwarf virus (RBSDV) was detected from sorghum collected in Gyeongsang province. The other four viruses, including RBSDV, Rice stripe virus (RSV), Barley virus G (BVG), and Cereal yellow dwarf virus (CYDV), were detected from proso millet. Among four viruses, both RSV and RBSDV were identified high frequency from proso millet collected from Gyeongsang province. Otherwise, BVG was nearly equally identified from five provinces, suggesting that the virus was supposedly widespread nationwide. RBSDV was first identified from both proso millet and sorghum in South Korea. The other virus annotated CYDV identified proso millet was shown to have relatively low identities compared to CYDV previously reported, suggesting that the virus might be new member of Polerovirus.

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