European Journal of Plant Pathology (2013) 135, 745-760

Tetsuji Ogawa, Shigeo Nakamura, Mitsuru Sayama and Kazusato Ohshima (2013)
Attenuated mutants of Potato virus Y necrotic strain produced by nitrous acid treatment and mutagenesis-in-tissue culture methods
European Journal of Plant Pathology 135 (4), 745-760
Abstract: We produced attenuated mutants of Potato virus Y necrotic strain not only by nitrous acid treatment but also by a novel method, probably unique to plant viruses, which we call the "mutagenesis-in-tissue culture method". This relies on the natural or experimental generation of virus sequence variants within an infected plant, and then isolating the mutants by serially cloning them in plants. A total of fifteen attenuated mutants were obtained and studied. Nucleotide and amino acid sequences of the genomes of the attenuated mutant populations were compared with those parental severe isolates, and the amino acid changes in relevant genomic regions for viral attenuation were inferred. Many of the mutations were located in the 5' half of the genome; 65 % were located in the protein 1 (P1) and helper component proteinase protein (HC-Pro) encoding regions. Amino acid changes mostly involved simultaneous changes in two or more protein encoding regions, one of which was often in the HC-Pro encoding region. The attenuated mutants M-MY10 and N-NA10 were effective in cross-protection against the original severe isolate NTND6.
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Research topic(s) for pests/diseases/weeds:
molecular biology - genes
resistance/tolerance/defence of host

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Beneficial	Pest/Disease/Weed	Crop/Product	Country	Quarant.
	Potato virus Y