Association of Pedilanthus leaf curl virus with yellow mottling and leaf curl symptoms in two jasmine species grown in India

• Published in: Journal of general plant pathology : JGPP Vol. 80; no. 4; pp. 370 - 373
• Main Authors: Srivastava, Ashish, Kumar, Susheel, Raj, Shri Krishna
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo Springer-Verlag 01-07-2014; Springer Japan; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Agriculture; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Cestrum; Disease Note; DNA-directed DNA polymerase; genome; leaf curling; Life Sciences; Microbiology; phylogeny; Plant diseases; Plant growth; Plant Pathology; sequence analysis; Tabernaemontana divaricata; viruses; India; Crape jasmine; Night blooming jasmine
• ISSN: 1345-2630; 1610-739X
• DOI: 10.1007/s10327-014-0517-3

Association of Pedilanthus leaf curl virus (PeLCV) with yellow mottling of crape jasmine (Tabernaemontana coronaria) and leaf curl of night blooming jasmine (Cestrum nocturnum) was investigated using a sequence analysis of the cloned full-length genome amplified by Rolling circle amplification using Φ-29 DNA polymerase. In the sequence analysis, virus isolates from T. coronaria (JN807764) and C. nocturnum (JQ012790) shared 95 % sequence identity with each other and the highest identity (93 %) and the closest phylogenetic relationships with PeLCV (AM712436); therefore, the virus isolates were identified as PeLCV strains. This report from India is the first on the occurrence of PeLCV on T. coronaria and C. nocturnum anywhere in the world.