Wild herbaceous dicotyledonous plants (dicots) showing symptoms ascribable to phytoplasma disorders were found to be widely distributed in organic vineyards in central Tuscany (Italy) affected by bois noir, a grapevine yellows disease caused by "Candidatus Phytoplasma solani". In 2010 symptomatic dicots were tentatively identified to species level and the incidence of symptoms estimated in two selected vineyards in the province of Florence. Incidence ranged from 2 to 77%, and was not related to the relative abundance of hosts since very common species as well as relatively rare ones were consistently found to be symptomatic. PCR indexing and 16S rRNA sequence analyses indicated that two phytoplasmas co-existed in the vineyards: "Ca. P. solani", infecting the root systems of 17 taxa, and a phytoplasma closely related to "Ca. P. phoenicium", infecting 11 taxa, and occasionally co-infecting the same plant. Regardless of the high frequency of both pathogens in the vineyards, only "Ca. P. solani" could be detected in the grapevines. Population screening by means of tuf sequence analyses revealed the presence of only the tuf-b "Ca. P. solani" type both in dicot hosts and grapevine. This supports current notions of bois noir epidemiology, indicating that some infected dicots act as sources of "Ca. P. solani" inoculum whereas others are dead-end hosts. When the same specimens were screened by sequence analysis of the vmp1 gene, evidence was found that different phytoplasma genotypes may be predominant in grapevines and dicots.

Occurrence of different phytoplasma infections in wild herbaceous dicots growing in vineyards affected by bois noir in Tuscany (Italy) / Marchi, Guido; Cinelli, Tamara; Rizzo, Domenico; Stefani, Luciana; Goti, Emanuele; Bartola, Michele Della; Luvisi, Andrea; Panattoni, Alessandra; Materazzi, Alberto. - In: PHYTOPATHOLOGIA MEDITERRANEA. - ISSN 0031-9465. - STAMPA. - 54:(2015), pp. 504-515. [10.14601/Phytopathol_Mediterr-16239]

Occurrence of different phytoplasma infections in wild herbaceous dicots growing in vineyards affected by bois noir in Tuscany (Italy)

MARCHI, GUIDO
Conceptualization
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CINELLI, TAMARA
Investigation
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GOTI, EMANUELE
Formal Analysis
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2015

Abstract

Wild herbaceous dicotyledonous plants (dicots) showing symptoms ascribable to phytoplasma disorders were found to be widely distributed in organic vineyards in central Tuscany (Italy) affected by bois noir, a grapevine yellows disease caused by "Candidatus Phytoplasma solani". In 2010 symptomatic dicots were tentatively identified to species level and the incidence of symptoms estimated in two selected vineyards in the province of Florence. Incidence ranged from 2 to 77%, and was not related to the relative abundance of hosts since very common species as well as relatively rare ones were consistently found to be symptomatic. PCR indexing and 16S rRNA sequence analyses indicated that two phytoplasmas co-existed in the vineyards: "Ca. P. solani", infecting the root systems of 17 taxa, and a phytoplasma closely related to "Ca. P. phoenicium", infecting 11 taxa, and occasionally co-infecting the same plant. Regardless of the high frequency of both pathogens in the vineyards, only "Ca. P. solani" could be detected in the grapevines. Population screening by means of tuf sequence analyses revealed the presence of only the tuf-b "Ca. P. solani" type both in dicot hosts and grapevine. This supports current notions of bois noir epidemiology, indicating that some infected dicots act as sources of "Ca. P. solani" inoculum whereas others are dead-end hosts. When the same specimens were screened by sequence analysis of the vmp1 gene, evidence was found that different phytoplasma genotypes may be predominant in grapevines and dicots.
2015
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504
515
Marchi, Guido; Cinelli, Tamara; Rizzo, Domenico; Stefani, Luciana; Goti, Emanuele; Bartola, Michele Della; Luvisi, Andrea; Panattoni, Alessandra; Mate...espandi
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