First Description of Apple Rubbery Wood Virus 2 in Hungary by Small RNA High Throughput Sequencing

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Keywords:

apple rubbery wood virus 2, small RNA, HTS, RT-PCR

Abstract

Apple (Malus domestica) is one of the most widely produced and economically important fruits in temperate regions worldwide. Recently novel negative-stranded RNA viruses have been identified in fruit trees, including pome fruit trees. Apple rubbery wood virus 2 (ARWV2) is one of them belonging to family Phenuiviridae in the order Bunyavirales. ARWV2 possess negative-sense single-stranded tripartite RNA genome small (S), medium (M) and large (L) segments. Apple rubbery wood infectious disease is characterized by unusual flexibility of twigs and smaller branches due to lack of rigidity caused by decreased lignification of xylem vessels and fibers in the symptomatic trees. In our work we detected and validated the presence ARWV2 first time in Hungary in asymptomatic apple trees via small RNA high-throughput sequencing (HTS), and detected its presence in different apple, pear and quince trees by a reverse-transcription PCR (RT-PCR) based survey.

Author Biographies

  • Almash Jahan, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Institute of Plant Protection, Department of Plant Pathology, Genomics Research Group

    correspondence
    almash.jahan@phd.uni-mate.hu

  • Éva Várallyay, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Institute of Plant Protection, Department of Plant Pathology, Genomics Research Group

    varallyay.eva@uni-mate.hu

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2024-02-29