Title
High throughput sequencing for the detection and characterization of new virus found in arracacha (Arracacia xanthorrhiza)
Date Issued
01 December 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
International Center for Tropical Agriculture
Publisher(s)
Universidad Nacional de Trujillo
Abstract
Arracacha is a root crop cultivated in several countries of South America. The commercial product, which is the storage root, has multiple nutritional properties: Its fine starch makes it easily digestible, and it contains high levels of calcium and vitamin A. High throughput sequencing (HTS) technology has been applied successfully for virus discovery in different agricultural crops, and it has been proposed to apply it in routine pathogen detection. Using HTS, novel sequences related to crinivirus and vitivirus were identified in apparently symptomeless arracacha, which were assembled into contigs located in different positions of the genome. Based on those sequences' primers were designed to amplify corresponding sequences from further arracacha accessions and potato plant samples collected from farmers' fields in Colombia and Peru. It was possible to determine the near complete genomes of these viruses. In addition, sequences related to an enamovirus and ST9-like RNA were also identified in arracacha plants using HTS.
Start page
471
End page
480
Volume
12
Issue
4
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Agricultura
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85117865099
Source
Scientia Agropecuaria
ISSN of the container
20779917
Sponsor(s)
CRP/101005) and EU FP7 through the QBOL project (Grant No. 226482). The authors gratefully acknowledge to Anngie Hernandez and Angela Villamil, from Universidad Nacional de Colombia, and to Rocío Silvestre, from International Potato Center, for the technical help. Also, we thank to Hugo Espinoza and Beder Guerrero for taking care the plants.
Acknowledgements This research was undertaken as part of, and funded by, the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) and supported by CGIAR Fund Donors (http://www.cgiar.org/about-us/our-funders/). This work was support by the financial contribution from ICGEB-TWAS-UNESCO/IBSP Joint Programme on Capacity Building in Basic Molecular Biology (Contract No.:
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