The Plant Pathology Journal (Oct 2019)

Full-Length Infectious Clones of Two New Isolates of Tomato Mosaic Virus Induce Distinct Symptoms Associated with Two Differential Amino Acid Residues in 128-kDa Protein

  • Go-Woon Choi,
  • June-Pyo Oh,
  • In-Sook Cho,
  • Hye-Kyoung Ju,
  • Wen-Xing Hu,
  • Boram Kim,
  • Eun-Young Seo,
  • Jong-Seok Park,
  • Leslie L Domier,
  • John Hammond,
  • Kihak Song,
  • Hyoun-Sub Lim

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5423/PPJ.NT.12.2018.0286
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 35, no. 5
pp. 538 – 542

Abstract

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In 2017, two new tomato mosaic virus (ToMV) isolates were collected from greenhouses in Buyeo, Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea. Full-length cDNAs of the new ToMV isolates were cloned into dual cauliflower mosaic virus 35S and T7 promoter-driven vectors, sequenced and their pathogenicities investigated. The nucleotide sequences of isolates GW1 (MH507165) and GW2 (MH507166) were 99% identical, resulting in only two amino acid differences in nonconserved region II and the helicase domain, Ile668Thr and Val834Ile. The two isolates were most closely related to a ToMV isolate from Taiwan (KJ207374). Isolate GW1 (Ile668, Val834) induced a systemic hypersensitive response in Nicotiana benthamiana compared with the isolate GW2, which a single residue substitution showed was due to Val834.

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