Title
Screening tomato genotypes for resistance and tolerance to Tomato chlorosis virus
Date Issued
01 June 2018
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Bampi D.
Melo P.C.T.
Lourenção A.L.
Rezende J.A.M.
Publisher(s)
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Abstract
Tomato chlorosis virus (ToCV) is an emerging crinivirus in Brazil that causes an economically important disease in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) and other solanaceous species. ToCV is transmitted predominantly by the whitefly Bemisia tabaci Middle East-Asia Minor 1 (MEAM1, formerly biotype B), in a semipersistent manner. As all cultivated tomato varieties and hybrids are susceptible to this crinivirus, the main alternatives for the control of the disease are the use of healthy seedlings for transplanting and the chemical control of the insect vector. The objective of this work was to evaluate the responses of tomato genotypes to infection with this crinivirus and their tolerance to the disease in order to support the development of other alternatives for disease control. Resistance to infection was evaluated by ToCV inoculation with viruliferous B. tabaciMEAM1 followed by virus detection by RT-PCR and RT-qPCR. To measure tolerance to the disease, plant development and fruit yield of ToCV-infected and healthy plants were compared. Among 56 genotypes, only the lineage IAC-CN-RT (S. lycopersicum ‘Angela Gigante’ × S. peruvianum ‘LA 444-1’) was highly resistant to infection with ToCV. Tolerance to the disease over two trials with different genotypes showed variable results. The effect of ToCV on plant development varied from 2.9% to 71.9% reduction, while yield loss varied from 0.2% to 51.8%. The highly ToCV-resistant lineage IAC-CN-RT, which is also resistant to a Spanish isolate of ToCV, might be useful for tomato breeding programmes.
Start page
1231
End page
1237
Volume
67
Issue
5
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Agricultura
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85041229283
Source
Plant Pathology
ISSN of the container
00320862
Sponsor(s)
The authors thank Thiago Teodoro Alcântara, Agristar do Brasil Ltda, for providing seeds of some tomato genotypes used in the experiments. This study was supported by Funda©cão de Amparo à Pesquisa no Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP), project no. 2012/51771-4. The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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