Abstract
Samples containing two viruses belonging to the genus Polerovirus, beet chlorosis virus (BChV) and beet mild yellowing virus (BMYV), were collected from French and Polish sugar beet fields. The molecular properties of 24 isolates of BChV and BMYV were investigated, and their genetic diversity was examined in the coat protein (CP)- and P0-encoding genes. For the first time, we have demonstrated that beet polerovirus populations include recombinants between BChV and BMYV containing breakpoints within the CP gene. Moreover, a partial correlation between geographic origin and phylogenetic clustering was observed for BMYV isolates.
This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution.


References
Beuve M, Stevens M, Liu H-Y et al (2007) Biological and molecular characterization of an American sugar beet-infecting beet western yellows virus isolate. Plant Dis 92:51–60. doi:10.1094/PDIS-92-1-0051
King AMQ, Adams MJ, Carstens EB, Lefkowitz EJ (2012) Family Luteoviridae. Virus taxon. Elsevier, San Diego, pp 1045–1053
Hauser S, Weber C, Vetter G et al (2000) Improved detection and differentiation of poleroviruses infecting beet or rape by multiplex RT-PCR. J Virol Methods 89:11–21
Hauser S, Stevens M, Beuve M, Lemaire O (2002) Biological properties and molecular characterization of beet chlorosis virus (BChV). Arch Virol 147:745–762
Stevens M, Patron NJ, Dolby CA et al (2005) Distribution and properties of geographically distinct isolates of sugar beet yellowing viruses. Plant Pathol 54:100–107. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3059.2005.01155.x
Stevens M, Hallsworth PB, Smith HG (2004) The effects of Beet mild yellowing virus and Beet chlorosis virus on the yield of UK field-grown sugar beet in 1997 1999 and 2000. Ann Appl Biol 144:113–119. doi:10.1111/j.1744-7348.2004.tb00323.x
Hauser S, Stevens M, Mougel C et al (2000) Biological, serological, and molecular variability suggest three distinct polerovirus species infecting beet or rape. Phytopathology 90:460–466. doi:10.1094/PHYTO.2000.90.5.460
Mayo MA, Ziegler-Graff V (1996) Molecular biology of luteoviruses. Adv Virus Res 46:413–460
Kozlowska-Makulska A, Guilley H, Szyndel MS et al (2010) P0 proteins of European beet-infecting poleroviruses display variable RNA silencing suppression activity. J Gen Virol 91:1082–1091. doi:10.1099/vir.0.016360-0
Pfeffer S, Dunoyer P, Heim F et al (2002) P0 of beet Western yellows virus is a suppressor of posttranscriptional gene silencing. J Virol 76:6815–6824
Ziegler-Graff V, Brault V, Mutterer JD, Simonis MT, Herrbach E, Guilley H, Richards KE, Jonard G (1996) The coat protein of beet western yellows luteovirus is essential for systemic infection but the viral gene products P29 and P19 are dispensable for systemic infection and aphid transmission. Mol Plant Microbe Interact 9:501. doi:10.1094/MPMI-9-0501
Brault V, Mutterer J, Scheidecker D et al (2000) Effects of point mutations in the readthrough domain of the beet western yellows virus minor capsid protein on virus accumulation in planta and on transmission by aphids. J Virol 74:1140–1148
De Miranda JR, Stevens M, De Bruyne E et al (1995) Beet luteovirus coat protein sequence variation. Ann Appl Biol 127:113–124. doi:10.1111/j.1744-7348.1995.tb06656.x
Aaziz R, Tepfer M (1999) Recombination in RNA viruses and in virus-resistant transgenic plants. J Gen Virol 80(Pt 6):1339–1346
Acosta-Leal R, Duffy S, Xiong Z et al (2011) Advances in plant virus evolution: translating evolutionary insights into better disease management. Phytopathology 101:1136–1148. doi:10.1094/PHYTO-01-11-0017
Stevens M, Freeman B, Liu H-Y et al (2005) Beet poleroviruses: close friends or distant relatives? Mol Plant Pathol 6:1–9. doi:10.1111/j.1364-3703.2004.00258.x
Boulila M (2011) Selective constraints, molecular recombination structure and phylogenetic reconstruction of isometric plant RNA viruses of the families Luteoviridae and Tymoviridae. Biochimie 93:242–253. doi:10.1016/j.biochi.2010.09.017
Silva TF, Corrêa RL, Castilho Y et al (2008) Widespread distribution and a new recombinant species of Brazilian virus associated with cotton blue disease. Virol J 5:123. doi:10.1186/1743-422X-5-123
Smith HG, Barker I, Brewer G et al (1996) Production and evaluation of monoclonal antibodies for the detection of beet mild yellowing luteovirus and related strains. Eur J Plant Pathol 102:163–169. doi:10.1007/BF01877103
Tamura K, Stecher G, Peterson D, Filipski A, Kumar S (2013) MEGA6: molecular evolutionary genetics analysis version 6.0. Mol Biol Evol 30:2725–2729. doi:10.1093/molbev/mst197
Thompson JD, Gibson TJ, Plewniak F et al (1997) The CLUSTAL_X windows interface: flexible strategies for multiple sequence alignment aided by quality analysis tools. Nucleic Acids Res 25:4876–4882
Gibbs MJ, Armstrong JS, Gibbs AJ (2000) Sister-scanning: a Monte Carlo procedure for assessing signals in recombinant sequences. Bioinforma Oxf Engl 16:573–582
Pond SLK, Posada D, Gravenor MB et al (2006) Automated phylogenetic detection of recombination using a genetic algorithm. Mol Biol Evol 23:1891–1901. doi:10.1093/molbev/msl051
Pond SLK, Frost SDW (2005) Datamonkey: rapid detection of selective pressure on individual sites of codon alignments. Bioinforma Oxf Engl 21:2531–2533. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bti320
Schneider WL, Damsteegt VD, Stone AL et al (2011) Molecular analysis of soybean dwarf virus isolates in the eastern United States confirms the presence of both D and Y strains. Virol 412:46–54. doi:10.1016/j.virol.2011.01.001
Acknowledgments
The authors are very thankful to Mrs. Emmanuelle Vigne (INRA, Colmar) for helpful discussions, to M. Malek Alioua (IBMP, Strasbourg) for sequence analysis, and M. Stéphane Bâton (Staphyt, France) for collecting some French BMYV and BChV isolates. We would also like to thank Prof. Santiago F. Elena (IBMCP, Valencia) for valuable advice on phylogenetic analysis. This work is part of a Ph.D thesis jointly supervised by Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland, and Université de Strasbourg, France, that was made possible by to a scholarship from the French Government.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Kozlowska-Makulska, A., Hasiow-Jaroszewska, B., Szyndel, M.S. et al. Phylogenetic relationships and the occurrence of interspecific recombination between beet chlorosis virus (BChV) and Beet mild yellowing virus (BMYV). Arch Virol 160, 429–433 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00705-014-2245-6
Received:
Accepted:
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00705-014-2245-6