Journal
LIFE-BASEL
Volume 11, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/life11111265
Keywords
Rhizobium vitis; multi-locus sequence analysis; grapevine crown gall; vineyard; epidemic
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan [20K20572]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [20K20572] Funding Source: KAKEN
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This study revealed that the population of genetic group A in Hokkaido, Japan, was significantly related to a range of prefectures, indicating that the epidemic of group A strains originated mainly through soil infection. Additionally, group E strains could have been transported by infected nursery stocks as an infection source.
Crown gall is a globally distributed and economically important disease of grapevine and other important crop plants. The causal agent of grapevine crown gall is tumorigenic Allorhizobium vitis (Ti) strains that harbor a tumor-inducing plasmid (pTi). The epidemic of grapevine crown gall has not been widely elucidated. In this study, we investigated the genetic diversity of 89 strains of Ti and nonpathogenic A. vitis to clarify their molecular epidemiology. Multi-locus sequence analysis (MLSA) of the partial nucleotide sequences of pyrG, recA, and rpoD was performed for molecular typing of A. vitis strains isolated from grapevines with crown gall symptoms grown in 30 different vineyards, five different countries, mainly in Japan, and seven genomic groups A to F were obtained. The results of MLSA and logistic regression indicated that the population of genetic group A was significantly related to a range of prefectures and that the epidemic of group A strains originated mainly in Hokkaido in Japan through soil infection. Moreover, group E strains could have been transported by infected nursery stocks. In conclusion, this study indicates that both soil infection and transporting of infected nursery stocks are working as infection source in Hokkaido.
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