Tentativas de purificação e produção de antissoro contra  o vírus da morte súbita dos citros e isolamento do CSDaV em plantas herbáceas / Attempts to purify and produce antiserum against the citrus sudden death associated virus and CSDaV isolation in herbaceous plants

AUTOR(ES)

Mateus de Almeida Santos

FONTE

IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

26/08/2011

RESUMO

Citrus sudden death (CSD) disease was identified in 2001, at Comendador Comes County, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Since then the disease has caused the death of 4 million trees in Southwestern Minas Gerais State and Northern São Paulo State. This new and destructive disease affects sweet orange as well as other species, varieties, and hybrids when grafted on Rangpur (Citrus limonia). Then years after the first report on CSD, the causal agent and possible vector(s) have not been precisely identified. It is known, however, that all disease trees are infected with Citrus tristeza virus (CTV) and Citrus sudden death associate virus (CSDaV), which is a member of the Genus Marafivirus, Famíly Tymoviridae. Due to this, it is necessary to separate these pathogens, in order to complete Kochs postulated for the CSDaV. The main purpose of the present work was to try to isolate the CSDaV to verify its role on CSD disease. In addition, attempts were done to purify the virus and produce polyclonal antiserum for disease diagnosis. Purification was carried out as described for Potato leaf roll virus, but results were not suitable due to the constant presence of CTV. Efforts to remove CTV by immunoprecipitation with homologous antiserum did not succeed. The produced antiserum reacted indistinctly with extracts of plants infected with both viruses. SCDaV was mechanically transmitted to Nicotiana sp., N. clevelandii, Chenopodium amaranticolor, and C. quinoa, causing mainly local infection. Infection was confirmed by RT-PCR and virus identity was determined by nucleotide sequence of the amplified fragment. Efforts to transmit CSDaV, using as inoculum extract from field infected plants, by means of Cucucuta sp., by incisions on the trunk of the test-plants, with Toxoptera citricida apparently viruliferous only for the tymovirus, and by means of citrus seed inoculation gave negative results.

ASSUNTO(S)

citricultura citriculture citrus tristeza doenças de plantas herbaceous plants plant disease plantas herbáceas tristeza cítrica vírus de plantas virus diseases

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