In-depth study of tomato and weed viromes reveals undiscovered plant virus diversity in an agroecosystem.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In agroecosystems, viruses are well known to influence crop health and some cause phytosanitary and economic problems, but their diversity in non-crop plants and role outside the disease perspective is less known. Extensive virome explorations that include both crop and diverse weed plants are therefore needed to better understand roles of viruses in agroecosystems. Such unbiased exploration is available through viromics, which could generate biological and ecological insights from immense high-throughput sequencing (HTS) data.

Results

Here, we implemented HTS-based viromics to explore viral diversity in tomatoes and weeds in farming areas at a nation-wide scale. We detected 125 viruses, including 79 novel species, wherein 65 were found exclusively in weeds. This

SUBMITTER: Rivarez MPS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10042675 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature