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Masamichi Isogai1, Takanori Matsudaira1, Kotaro Miyoshi1
1Plant Pathology Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Iwate University, Ueda 3-chome 18-8, Morioka, 020-8550, Iwate, Japan.
Abstract:
Horizontal pollen transmission by the raspberry bushy dwarf virus 1b deletion mutant (RBΔ1bstop), which is defective in virus virulence, was significantly decreased compared to wild-type raspberry bushy dwarf virus (wtRBDV). We assessed accumulation of viral genomic (g) RNAs in pollen grains from RBΔ1bstop-infected plants and found that the pollen grains had less viral gRNA than those from wtRBDV-infected plants. In addition, pollen grains from 1b-expressing transgenic plants (1b-plants) infected with RBΔ1bstop were more efficient in horizontal virus transmission to healthy plants after pollination than pollen from RBΔ1bstop-infected wild type plants. Moreover, viral gRNA accumulation in pollen grains from RBΔ1bstop-infected 1b-plants was higher than in pollen from RBΔ1bstop-infected wild type plants. We suggest that 1b increases the amount of viral gRNAs released from elongating pollen grains.
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