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3 BIOTECH
Volume 11, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s13205-021-02666-2
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Rose balsam; Aster yellows group; Peanut witches' broom group; 16S rRNA gene; secA gene; rp gene; secY gene; tuf gene; Weeds
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Rose balsam nurseries in Uttar Pradesh and Tripura states of India showed symptoms such as flat stem, little leaf, and phyllody. Phytoplasmas belonging to 16SrI-B and 16SrII-D subgroups were identified in the tested samples, confirming their presence and identity through sequence comparison and gene amplification. This study marks the first report of detecting these phytoplasmas in Impatiens balsamina worldwide.
Rose balsam (Impatiens balsamina) is an important ornamental species grown worldwide for its attractive flowers and also having medicinal properties. Flat stem, little leaf, and phyllody symptoms were observed in I. balsamina nurseries in Uttar Pradesh and Tripura states of India during surveys from 2018 to 2020, with an incidence from 6 to 27%. Amplicons of similar to 1.2 kb were amplified in all the tested symptomatic samples of I. balsamina using universal phytoplasma primer pairs from different surveyed locations, but not from the asymptomatic plants. Pairwise sequence comparison, phylogeny, and virtual RFLP analysis of 16S rRNA gene sequences identified the phytoplasmas as 16SrI-B subgroup strain from Tripura (Lembucherra) and 16SrII-D subgroup strain from Uttar Pradesh (Gorakhpur and Faizabad). Phytoplasma presence and identity was further confirmed by amplifying secA, rp, secY, and tuf genes. This is the first report of 16SrI-B and 16SrII-D phytoplasmas detection in I. balsamina in the world.
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