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Two dicot-infecting mastreviruses (family Geminiviridae) occur in Pakistan

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Most mastreviruses (family Geminiviridae) infect monocotyledonous hosts and are transmitted by leafhopper vectors. Only two mastrevirus species, Tobacco yellow dwarf virus from Australia and Bean yellow dwarf virus (BeYDV) from South Africa, have been identified whose members infect dicotyledonous plants. We have identified two distinct mastreviruses in chickpea stunt disease (CSD)-affected chickpea originating from Pakistan. The first is an isolate of BeYDV, previously only known to occur in South Africa. The second is a member of a new species with the BeYDV isolates as its closest relatives. A PCR-based diagnostic test was developed to differentiate these two virus species. Our results show that BeYDV plays no role in the etiology of CSD in Pakistan, while the second virus occurs widely in chickpea across Pakistan. A genomic clone of the new virus was infectious to chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) and induced symptoms typical of CSD. We propose the use of the name Chickpea chlorotic dwarf Pakistan virus for the new species. The significance of these findings with respect to our understanding of the evolution, origin and geographic spread of dicot-infecting mastreviruses is discussed.

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Acknowledgments

N.N. is supported by a Ph.D. fellowship from the Higher Education Commission (HEC), Government of Pakistan. R.W.B. is supported by the HEC under the “Foreign Faculty Hiring Program”. The authors are grateful for the support of NIBGE in conducting this study and to Mr. Muhammad Ilyas for his assistance in inoculating chickpea. Funding for this project came in part from the Ministry of Science and Technology, Pakistan, and from the National Research Foundation, South Africa, and the University of Cape Town Research Committee. The authors are grateful to Darrin Martin and Bruno Gronenborn for critical reading of the manuscript.

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    N. Nahid, I. Amin, S. Mansoor & R. W. Briddon

  2. Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Cape Town, Private Bag, Rondebosch, Cape Town, 7701, South Africa

    E. P. Rybicki & E. van der Walt

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Nahid, N., Amin, I., Mansoor, S. et al. Two dicot-infecting mastreviruses (family Geminiviridae) occur in Pakistan. Arch Virol 153, 1441–1451 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00705-008-0133-7

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