Project description:Meristem culture and somatic embryogenesis is an effective tool for virus elimination of vegetatively propagated crops including grapevine. While they both are proved to be useful to eliminate the main grapevine viruses their efficiency differs according to the virus and the variety. In our work we investigated their efficiency using small RNA high-throughput sequencing as virus diagnostic method. Field grown mother plants of four clones representing three cultivars, infected with different viruses and viroids were selected for sanitation via somatic embryogenesis and meristem culture. Our results show that the sanitation with SE was efficient against all of the presenting viruses, including grapevine Pinot gris virus, grapevine rupestris vein feathering virus and grapevine Syrah virus 1, having no data using somatic embryogenesis for their elimination. In case of other viruses and viroids such as GFkV, GRSPaV, GYSVd-1, HSVd this study confirms the findings of earlier researches, that SE is a possible way for elimination. While the efficiency of the elimination of different viruses was high, in case of viroids this ratio was lower. Our work demonstrated that efficiency of SE is comparable to the technically difficult meristem culture technique, and show promising way for the high demand of the production of virus-free grapevine in the future.
Project description:Low coverage whole genome sequencing of samples from individuals from Friuli Venezia Giulia, an Italian genetic isolate population.
Project description:Low coverage whole genome sequencing of samples from individuals from Friuli Venezia Giulia, an Italian genetic isolate population.
Project description:Grapevine line pattern virus (GLPV) was described 30 years ago from Hungary, and in the lack of its sequence until now no additional information about its presence was reported. However High-Throughput Sequencing (HTS) applied on dsRNAs extracts recovered from a grapevine plant (accession Baco22A) infected with GLPV Grapevine line pattern virus (GLPV) allowed us to sequence it with different High-Throughput Sequencing (HTS) methods andthe assembleing of the full genome sequence of this virus. The availability of the sequence allowed us to validate the presence of the virus bot with RT-PCR and with Northern blot hybridization. These methods were also used to test its graft and seed transmission. In accordance as it was originally suggested its genome was found to comprise three RNA segments.Its RNA1 (3.160 bp), RNA2 (2.493 bp) and RNA3 (2.529 bp), encode four proteins, denoted 1a (Methyltransferase, helicase), 2a (RNA-dependent RNA Polymerase), 3a (Movement protein, MP) and 3b (Coat protein, CP). GLPV showed the highest amino acid identity (92%–99%) with all domains of Hop yellow virus (HYV), which is a tentative member of the genus Anulavirus of the family Bromoviridae. The phylogenetic trees constructed based on the amino acid sequences of 2a and 3b also confirmed the belongingness of GLPV to the genus Anulavirus, allocating it in one cluster together with the anulaviruses, and close to HYV. The very high sequence identity found between GLPV and HYV leaves no doubt that both are two isolates of the same viral species.
Project description:The Global Panzootic Lineage (GPL) of the pathogenic fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) has caused severe amphibian population declines, yet the drivers underlying the high frequency of GPL in regions of amphibian decline are unclear. Using publicly available Bd genome sequences, we identified multiple non-GPL Bd isolates that contain a circular Rep-encoding single stranded DNA-like virus which we named BdDV-1. We further sequenced and constructed genome assemblies with long read sequences to find that the virus is integrated into the nuclear genome in some strains. Attempts to cure virus positive isolates were unsuccessful, however, phenotypic differences between naturally virus positive and virus negative Bd isolates suggested that BdDV-1 decreases the growth of its host in vitro but increases the virulence of its host in vivo. BdDV-1 is the first described CRESS DNA mycovirus associated with hypervirulence with a distribution inversely associated with the emergence of the panzootic lineage.
Project description:Global gene expression analysis of grapevine cv. Pinot Noir berries during development and ripening. Time-course comparison of samples collected at three developmental stages (stages 33, 34 and 36 according to the modified E-L system, ref: Coombe BG, Aust J Grape Wine Res 1995, 1: 104-110) during three seasons (2003, 2005 and 2006).
Project description:As virus diseases cannot be controlled by traditional plant protection methods the risk of their spread have to be minimized on vegetatively propagated plants, such as grapevine. Metagenomics approaches used for virus diagnostics, offer a unique opportunity to reveal the presence of all viral pathogens in the investigated plant, why their usage can reduce the risk of using infected material for a new plantation. Here we used a special field, deep sequencing of virus derived small RNAs, of this high throughput method for virus diagnostics and determined viromes of vineyards in Hungary. With NGS of virus derived small RNAs we could detect not only the viruses tested routinely, but also new ones, which have never been described in Hungary before. Virus presence didn’t correlated with the age of the plantation, moreover phylogenetic analysis of the identified virus isolates suggests that infections mostly caused by the usage of infected propagating material. Our results, validated by other molecular methods, highlighted further questions to be answered before these method can be introduced as a routine, reliable test for grapevine virus diagnostics.