Journal of Plant Pathology (2007) 89, 369-375

B. Lolic, M. Afechtal, S. Matic, A. Myrta and F. Di Serio (2007)
Detection by tissue-printing of pome fruit viroids and charaterization of Pear blister canker viroid in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Journal of Plant Pathology 89 (3), 369-375
Abstract: A tissue printing hybridization (TPH) method for detecting pome fruit viroids was developed and used for a survey in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A total of 310 samples, representative of 65 apple and 51 pear cultivars and of several rootstocks were tested for the presence of Apple scar skin viroid (ASSVd), Apple dimple fruit viroid (ADFVd) and Pear blister canker viroid (PBCVd). Whereas ASSVd and ADFVd were not found, 13% of the pear samples tested by TPH gave positive signals for PBCVd that were confirmed by dot-blot and northernblot hybridization assays. These data show for the first time that PBCVd infects pear trees (belonging to at least 10 different cultivars) in Bosnia and Herzegovina and validate the use of TPH for surveys of viroid infections in pome fruit trees. Molecular characterization of the PBCVd population infecting the native pear cv Rancica identified five new polymorphic positions in the viroid genome, two of which are shared by all the sequenced variants of this Bosnian isolate. Apple cv Spy 227 was shown to be an experimental host of PBCVd.
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Database assignments for author(s): Francesco Di Serio, Arben Myrta, Slavica Matic

Research topic(s) for pests/diseases/weeds:
surveys/sampling/distribution

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Pest and/or beneficial records:

Beneficial	Pest/Disease/Weed	Crop/Product	Country	Quarant.
	Pear blister canker viroid	Pear (Pyrus)	Bosnia and Herzegovina