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Title: Viruses and Virus Diseases of Rubus

Author
item Martin, Robert
item MACFARLANE, S - The James Hutton Institute
item SABBANADZOVIC, S - Mississippi State University
item QUITO-AVILLA, D - Centro De Investigacion
item POUDEL, B - University Of Arkansas
item TZANETAKIS, I - University Of Arkansas

Submitted to: Plant Disease
Publication Type: Review Article
Publication Acceptance Date: 11/14/2012
Publication Date: 2/3/2013
Citation: Martin, R.R., Macfarlane, S., Sabbanadzovic, S., Quito-Avilla, D.F., Poudel, B., Tzanetakis, I.E. 2013. Viruses and Virus Diseases of Rubus. Plant Disease. 97:169-182.

Interpretive Summary:

Technical Abstract: Rubus species are propagated vegetatively and are subject to infection by viruses during development, propagation and fruit production stages. Reports of initial detection and symptoms of more than 30 viruses, virus-like diseases and phytoplasmas affecting Rubus spp. have been reviewed more than 20 years ago. Initially, most of the virus diseases of Rubus were described based upon symptoms on the virus indicators, Rubus occidentalis (black raspberry), R. henryii, R. idaeus cvs. Lloyd George and Malling Landmark following graft inoculation. Significant progress has been made in the molecular characterization of many of the viruses that infect Rubus spp. Vectors of the newly described virus can be inferred based on its phylogenetic relationships with better-characterized viruses that are closely related, but in most cases they still need to be confirmed in transmission studies. Prior to 2000, complete or partial molecular data existed only for some of the nematode-transmitted viruses that infect Rubus. Currently, reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR) detection methods are available for most of the viruses known to infect Rubus. There are two caveats to this statement: (1) for many of the recently identified viruses, only a few isolates have been studied, and thus, assay reliability is unknown given the limited knowledge of virus diversity, and (2) many new viruses of Rubus have been characterized since 2005 and it is likely that more, previously unknown viruses, are yet to be identified.