Amarelos da videira: identificação e análise filogenética dos fitoplasmas, transmissão dos agentes causais e otimização da diagnose / Grapevine yellows: identification and phylogenetic analyses of the phytoplasmas, transmition of the causal agents and diagnosis optimization

AUTOR(ES)

Raquel de Cássia Neroni

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

Phytoplasmas are wall-less prokaryotes, phloem-limited plant pathogens, belonging to Mollicute class. They are agents of diseases that cause serious damage to a diversity of cultivated especies. Grapevine (Vitis sp) is the third most cultivated fruit crop in the world and it has high economical impact in Brazil. Phytossanitary aspects are important production constraint factors, especially regarding diseases caused by phytoplasmas, which are generally known as grapevine yellows. These diseases are widely spread throughout main producer countries, located in Europe and North America. Plants exhibiting typical symptoms of the disease have also been observed in crops located in some areas of Brazilian territory. In order to investigate this kind of malady, symptomatic plants were sampled from commercial vineyards located in the States of São Paulo and Paraná, Brazil and kept in greenhouse conditions. The present study aimed to: demonstrate the association between phytoplasmas and yellows; identify and analyse phylogenetically the detected phytoplasmas; demonstrate their transmission to healthy plants and determinate optimal phenologycal stage for phytoplasma detection to diagnosis confirmation. Samples were collected from diseased plotted plants grown during 45 months. PCR method, RFLP analyses, sequencing of nucleotide bases from 16S rRNA, and grafting technique were used in this study. Amplified genomic fragments revealed the presence of phytoplasmas in all plants with symptoms of yellows. Those phytoplasmas were identified as representatives of the groups 16SrI-B and 16SrIII, occurring in simple and mixed infections. Phytoplasmas were detected in all phenological stages evaluated, but they occurred with high frequences in material collected during budburst. These stage may be considered as the most indicated for sampling to confirm diagnosis based on symptomatology. Phytoplasmas transmission by grafting of healthy scion grafts onto infected rootstocks was high, demonstrating that they are the disease agents and inspection is a control practice that must be adopted to prevent their dissemination through propagative material.

ASSUNTO(S)

mollicutes diagnosis diagnose foliar controle fitossanitário fitoplasmas fitogenia molicutes grapevine yellows. doenças de plantas phytoplasma uva.

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