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Seed transmission of potato spindle tuber viroid, tomato chlorotic dwarf viroid, tomato apical stunt viroid, and Columnea latent viroid in horticultural plants

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Seed transmission of Potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd), Tomato chlorotic dwarf viroid (TCDVd), Tomato apical stunt viroid (TASVd), and Columnea latent viroid (CLVd) has been investigated in some horticultural plants. The rate of seed transmission of PSTVd was found to be 0–90.2 % in tomato, 0.3 % in Capsicum annuum var. grossum, 0.5 % in C. annuum var. angulosum, 1.2 % in Glebionis coronaria, and 81 % in Petunia × hybrida. In the case of TCDVd and CLVd, transmission rates were 25 % in Petunia × hybrida and 5.3–100 % in tomato, respectively, indicating that the risk of spreading this disease worldwide via the international trade in horticultural plants is considerable. Furthermore, we investigated the distribution of PSTVd within the seed using in situ hybridization, and determined that PSTVd is present in the embryo and endosperm of PSTVd-infected tomato seeds.

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The TASVd and CLVd were kindly supplied by the Yokohama Plant Protection Station of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan. We are grateful to I. Fujisawa for their devoted contributions to experiments and discussions over the course of the study. We thank Y. Matsumura, Y. Narita, and J. Sato for preparing the experimental materials. This study was supported by a Grant-in-Aid for ‘Regulatory research projects for food safety, animal health and plant protection’ and ‘Research and development projects for application in promoting new policy of agriculture, forestry and fisheries’ from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries of Japan.

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    Yosuke Matsushita

  2. NARO Agricultural Research Centre, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8666, Japan

    Shinya Tsuda

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Matsushita, Y., Tsuda, S. Seed transmission of potato spindle tuber viroid, tomato chlorotic dwarf viroid, tomato apical stunt viroid, and Columnea latent viroid in horticultural plants. Eur J Plant Pathol 145, 1007–1011 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10658-016-0868-z

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