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Incidence of the cabbage aphid, Brevicoryne brassicae L. in potato crops in India and its efficiency for transmission of potato virus Yo

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Potato crops are infected by a large number of aphid-transmitted viruses resulting in yield loss and degeneration of seed stocks. These viruses are transmitted by a large number of colonizing and non-colonizing aphids. The non-colonizing aphid species are mainly responsible for the spread of non-persistent viruses like potato virus Y (PVYo). The cabbage aphid, Brevicoryne brassicae L, an important pest of cruciferous crops, is a non-colonizing aphid visiting potato crops transiently. We evaluated the relative prevalence of cabbage aphids in potato crops at four locations namely, Jalandhar (Punjab), Shimla (Himachal Pradesh), Modipuram (Uttar Pradesh) and Kalyani (West Bengal), where most of the seed and ware potato production is carried out in India. The cabbage aphids constitute an appreciable proportion (3.57% to 19.04%) of the aphid population on potato plants at these locations. The cabbage aphids were found to successfully acquire and transmit the PVYo from and to potato plants. The virus transmission efficiency came out to be 11.25%, with a relative efficiency factor (REF) of 0.13, in comparison to the peach-potato aphid, Myzus persicae (Sulzer). This is the first report of B. brassicae being a vector of PVYo in India. Therefore, isolation of seed potato crops from cruciferous crops or stringent management of the aphids on the latter is necessary for production of healthy seed potatoes.

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The authors are grateful to Dr. Sunil Joshi, ICAR-NBAIR, Bengaluru for his help in identification of the aphids.

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This work was funded by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi, India, through an institute research project (HORTCPRICIL201500600134).

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  1. ICAR-Central Potato Research Institute (CPRI), Shimla, 171 001, Himachal Pradesh, India

    Jandrajupalli Sridhar, Neelam Kumari, Baswaraj Raigond & S. K. Chakrabarti

  2. ICAR-National Institute of Biotic Stress Management, Raipur, 493225, Chhattisgarh, India

    Jandrajupalli Sridhar

  3. ICAR-Central Tobacco Research Institute (CTRI), Rajahmundry - 533 105, Bhaskarnagar, Andhra Pradesh, India

    Vallepu Venkateswarlu

  4. ICAR-Central Potato Research Institute-Regional Station, Jalandhar – 144 003, Punjab, India

    Mohd Abas Shah

  5. ICAR-Central Potato Research Institute-Regional Station, Meerut- 250 110, Modipuram, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Anuj Bhatnagar

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JS, MN and SKC conceived the problem. JS, AB and VV planned the research. JS, BR, VV, AB and MAS collected and curated the aphid samples. JS, NK did the molecular analysis. BR did Transmission electron microscopic studies. NK, JS and MAS wrote the manuscript. MN, SKC, BR edited and improved manuscript critically All authors commented on the draft and approved for publication.

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Sridhar, J., Venkateswarlu, V., Shah, M.A. et al. Incidence of the cabbage aphid, Brevicoryne brassicae L. in potato crops in India and its efficiency for transmission of potato virus Yo. Int J Trop Insect Sci 42, 285–291 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42690-021-00544-1

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