First Report of 16SrII Group Related Phytoplasma Associated with Witches'-broom Disease on Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) in Hainan Province, China

Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L.), a significant vegetable crop in China, holds particular prominence in the tropical island of Hainan. This region serves as the primary production area for the winter cultivation of cowpea. Phytoplasmas are an idiopathic parasitic pathogen and cannot be cultured in vitr...

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Veröffentlicht in:Plant disease. - 1997. - (2023) vom: 12. Dez.
1. Verfasser: Wang, Bao (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Lin, Zhao-Wei, Zhao, Zhi-Xiang, Yan, Wan-Rong, Tan, Shi-Meng, Huang, Wei-Kang, Ji, Xun-Cong
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2023
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Plant disease
Schlagworte:Journal Article 16SrII Group Vigna unguiculata molecular identification phytoplasma
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520 |a Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L.), a significant vegetable crop in China, holds particular prominence in the tropical island of Hainan. This region serves as the primary production area for the winter cultivation of cowpea. Phytoplasmas are an idiopathic parasitic pathogen and cannot be cultured in vitro. It is mainly transmitted by the insect vectors with the piercing and sucking mouthparts, such as leafhoppers, plant hoppers, and psyllids. (Kumari et al. 2019). On September 11, 2023, typical characteristics of phytoplasma diseases on cowpeas were observed in the experimental base of Hainan Academy of Agricultural Sciences (20°0'38.6964″N, 110°21'35.4024″E, Haikou City, Hainan Province, China), including reduced leaf size, chlorosis, and the development of broom-like branch deformities reminiscent, as depicted in Figure 1. At the same time, we found a large number of leafhoppers near the diseased plants, and we speculated that leafhoppers are the insect carriers that spread the disease. Following an on-site investigation, it was determined that the disease incidence ranges from 10% to 15%, leading to a consequential decrease of about 10% in yield, which is a potential disease that seriously threatens the cowpea industry in Hainan. Ten disease and healthy samples were meticulously collected and subsequently preserved at -80°C within the laboratory refrigerator. Three disease samples denoted as HNNKY-1, HNNKY-2, and HNNKY-3, were randomly chosen, and total DNA extraction was carried out employing the NuClean Plant Genomic DNA Kit (CWBIO, Taizhou, China), while three healthy samples were randomly selected as control. The 16S rRNA gene was amplified by PCR using the primer pairs P1/P7 (Schneider et al. 1995) and R16F2n / R16R2 (Lee et al. 1993) and the secA gene was amplified by PCR using the primer pairs secAfor1/secArev3 (Hodgetts et al. 2008). After agarose gel electrophoresis analysis, no DNA fragments were observed in the healthy leaf samples, whereas all three disease samples yielded amplification products. The PCR products were subsequently sequenced by Hainan Nanshan Biotech Co., Ltd., Haikou, China. After sequence analysis, it was found that the 16S rRNA gene and secA gene sequences HNNKY-1, HNNKY-2, and HNNKY-3 were identical to each other. We selected two gene sequences of strain HNNKY-3 to submission to the GenBank database, The length of the 16S rRNA gene sequence is 1193 base pairs, identified by the accession number OR666421, while the secA gene sequence is 825 base pairs in length, associated with the accession number OR661282. The phytoplasma strain HNNKY-3 was named 'Vigna unguiculata' witches'-broom phytoplasma. A BLAST analysis of the 16S rRNA gene revealed that strain HNNKY-3 displayed a 100% sequence match with 'Emilia sonchifolia' witches'-broom phytoplasma (MT420682), Peanut witches'-broom phytoplasma (OR239773), and 'Raphanus sativus' witches'-broom phytoplasma (OK491387). All of these phytoplasmas were classified within the 16SrII group. Based on the BLAST analysis of partial secA gene sequences, it was discerned that sequence homogeneity ranged from 99.27% to 99.74% among the studied sequences. These sequences were collectively classified as members of the 16SrII group. In addition, a phylogenetic tree was constructed by MEGA 11 (version 11.0.13) based on the 16Sr RNA gene and secA gene by the neighbor-joining method (Tamura et al. 2004). The results demonstrated the clustering of HNNKY-3 phytoplasma strains within the 16SrII group, as illustrated in Figures 2 and 3. A virtual RFLP analysis based on the 16S rRNA gene fragment of HNNKY-3 was conducted using the interactive online phytoplasma classification tool, iPhyClassifier (Zhao et al. 2009). The results indicated that the phytoplasma strain was the same as the reference pattern of the onion yellows phytoplasma of 16SrII-A (GenBank accession: L33765), and the similarity coefficient was 1.00. To best of our knowledge, this is the inaugural documentation of 16SrII Group-related phytoplasma infecting cowpea in Hainan, China, and lays the groundwork for further research on the dissemination of cowpea phytoplasma disease within China 
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700 1 |a Tan, Shi-Meng  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Huang, Wei-Kang  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Ji, Xun-Cong  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
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