Family: Annonaceae Edible fruit crop
Soursop yellow blotch virus
Taxonomic position
The virus is a tentative member of the family Rhabdoviridae.
Geographical distribution
The virus infection in plants of Annona muricata was reported from Ceara, Brazil, by Kitajima et al. (1993). The virus spreads in the South and Central American regions and Brazil (Santos et al. 2007).
Symptoms and host(s)
The virus-infected soursop plants exhibit symptoms of vein-clearing, yellow blotches on the leaves, leaf distortion, and stunting.
Transmission
The virus is transmitted by mechanical sap-inoculation to soursop, sweetsop (Annona squamosa), and birida (Rollinia deliciosa). The virus is transmitted by grafting. No seed transmission was observed.
Virion properties and genome
The virions are rhabdo- or bullet-shaped measuring 250–300 nm in length and 60–70 nm wide (Martins et al. 1999).
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References
Kitajima EW, Martins CRF, Santos AA (1993) Identification of a rhabdovirus in soursop (Annona muricata). Plant Dis 77:276–278
Martins CRF, Lima MI, Barros TSL, Resende RO, Kitajima EW (1999) Further characterization and serological properties of Soursop yellow blotch Rhabdovirus. Fitopatol Bras 24:410–415
Santos AA d, Cardoso JE, Viana FMP, Vidal JC, Souza RNM (2007) Effect of the Soursop yellow blotch virus on the growth and yield of soursop diseased plants. Summa Phytopathol 33:90–92
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Sastry, K.S., Mandal, B., Hammond, J., Scott, S.W., Briddon, R.W. (2019). Annona muricata (Soursop). In: Encyclopedia of Plant Viruses and Viroids. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-3912-3_57
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