THE CONTROL OF POTATO VIRUS DISEASES BY INSECTICIDES

Replicated trials were carried out in the years 1950, 1951, 1953 and 1954 to see if the spread of leaf-roll virus and virus Y in potato crops could be reduced by applying insecticides. The crops were disease-free, except for small numbers of deliberately introduced infected plants, and were sprayed at intervals of 10 or 14 days, according to the stage of growth of the plants, with a tractor-mounted spraying machine at 1OO gal./acre/application. Disease spread was estimated by growing tubers taken from the five plants on either side of each infector. DDT emulsion, DDT suspension, endrin, schradan, mipafox, malathion, parathion and Systox prevented the spread of leaf-roll virus and decreased the spread of virus Y, although DDT emulsion was the only insecticide used in all the trials. Dieldrin and toxaphene were ineffective. When virus control was successful, aphid control (estimated by counting apterae in the crops) was good.     

应用酶联免疫吸附试验检测马铃薯卷叶病毒

以辣根过氧化物酶标记马铃薯卷叶病毒抗体,采用双抗体夹心ELISA方法鉴定了马铃薯和洋酸浆的茎、叶、根及马铃薯块茎中的马铃薯卷叶病毒(Potato Leafroll Virus,PLRV),结果表明,对提纯的PLRV可测出的最低浓度为25ng/ml,当包被抗体浓度为40μg/ml、酶标记抗体稀释度为1/120时,可测出马铃薯茎、叶和根汁液中的PLRV,感染PLRV的洋酸浆茎、叶和根汁液的消光值,均比无病对照者高二倍以上,虽然感染PLRV的马铃薯休眠块茎维管束组织汁液的消光值高于无病毒对照,且脐部维管束组织消光值高于顶端,但测定打破休眠的感病块茎顶端维管束组织的阳性结果更为可靠和明显。     

马铃薯卷叶病毒的提纯

本文提出了一个应用液氮冷冻,一步提取,蔗糖垫层差速离心,Sephadex G-200柱层析以及蔗糖密度梯度离心法纯化马铃薯卷叶病毒的程序,改进后的马铃薯卷叶病毒提纯方法,使病毒产量达到1.18mg/kg酸浆组织,病毒提取物纯度比差速离心者更高,20％蔗糖垫层差速离心能够更加有效地去除宿主细胞成份,纯化病毒的OD260/280,260/240比值分别达到1.77和1.43。     

ROGUING POTATO CROPS FOR VIRUS DISEASES

Removing virus-infected plants from plots of Majestic potatoes at Rothamsted on 2 July 1947 did not reduce the spread of leaf roll but reduced rugose mosaic (potato virus Y) to about one-fifth of that in plots rogued on 21 July or left unrogued. Roguing Arran Pilot potatoes on 16 June or 2 July reduced leaf roll to five-sixths of that in unrogued plots; roguing on 16 June reduced rugose mosaic to about half that in plots rogued on 2 July, and about a quarter of that in unrogued plots. Lifting Arran Pilot potatoes in mid-August reduced virus diseases to about two-thirds.
Roguing flattened the gradient (decrease in percentage plants diseased with increasing distance from the source of infection) with rugose mosaic, but had little effect with leaf roll. Evidently any plants prevented by roguing from contracting virus Y were near the initially infected plants.
In 1948, Majestic and King Edward potatoes at three places were rogued during 22–24 June and tubers were dug during 28–30 July and again at the end of the season. Leaf roll spread more in Majestic than in King Edward, and rugose mosaic spread more in King Edward. Roguing reduced the spread of both by about one-fifth at Rothamsted, but had no effect at Sutton Bonington. At Bretton, in the Derbyshire hills, roguing had no effect on leaf roll, but prevented the spread of rugose mosaic.
The small benefit occasionally achieved by roguing in the ware-growing districts of England does not make the practice economically worth while.     

THE USE OF SOIL INSECTICIDES TO CONTROL POTATO APHIDS AND VIRUS DISEASES

A replicated trial was done to find whether the insecticides Thimet and Rogor applied in the soil affected the spread of aphid-transmitted viruses from infected to healthy plants with potato crops. The insecticides were applied at planting as activated carbon formulations at rates equal in cost to three sprays with DDT emulsion at 2 lb. DDT per acre. The infected plants were removed (rogued) in late June.
Thimet applied along the furrows with the fertilizer, and Rogor applied in individual doses beneath each tuber, kept the plants free from aphids from a week after the plants emerged until early August. Thimet in individual doses was less effective but greatly decreased the aphid infestation. All treatments prevented or greatly decreased the spread of leaf-roll virus, but they only slightly decreased the spread of virus Y. No treatment damaged the plants or depressed yields significantly.
Tubers harvested from the plots treated with insecticides contained only very small quantities of the insecticides, but shoots from them, when infested with adult Myzus persicae (Sulz.), carried fewer aphids a week after infestation than did shoots from control tubers. Shoots of tubers from treated plots also grew more slowly than those from the controls.
The aphicidal efficiency of Thimet applied as individual doses separated from the tubers by distances of up to 6 in., decreased as the distance increased, but the effect of distance became less as time passed.
Reasons for the differences in the behaviour of the insecticides are discussed, and the possibilities that the method offers to control virus diseases. The application of insecticides to soil promises to be a useful way of controlling the spread of viruses, provided the harvested crop is free from toxic residues.     

马铃薯Y病毒外壳蛋白基因在转基因马铃薯中的表达

ＰＶＹ是马铃薯Ｙ病毒组的典型成员,主要感染马铃薯、番茄、辣椒和烟草等。近年来,利用植物基因工程手段获得了不少抗病毒转基因工程植物,为培育抗病毒作物新品种提供了新途径［１］。病毒外壳蛋白基因导入并使之在植物中表达可获得抗相应病毒的转基因植物,已在烟草、番茄、马铃薯、苜蓿、黄瓜和番木瓜等植物中获得成功［１～３］。本室已成功地对在我国流行的ＰＶＹＮ株系外壳蛋白基因进行了克隆及序列测定［４］,在此基础上,我们构建了植物表达中间载体,通过土壤农杆菌介导的叶盘法转化马铃薯,获得了大量转基因植株。分子检测证明…     

THE SPREAD OF VIRUS DISEASES TO SINGLE POTATO PLANTS BY WINGED APHIDS

Young potato plants in pots exposed in the open near plots of potatoes for limited periods at intervals during the summer, became infested with large numbers of winged aphids only during warm, calm and dry weather. Although visited by aphids during May and June, when much of the spread of viruses occurred in nearby potato crops, few of the potted plants became infected. Most potted plants became infected in July when alate aphids were leaving neighbouring potato crops. Widely different proportions of the exposed plants became infected in different years; in two of the three years, many more plants were infected with virus Y than with leaf roll virus.     

马铃薯Y病毒外壳蛋白基因的克隆及序列分析

本文报道应用聚合酶链式反应(PCR)技术,在体外扩增马铃薯 Y 病毒外壳蛋白基因及其克隆和序列分析的结果。病毒 RNA 从马铃薯 Y 病毒感染的烟草叶片中提取,用合成的PCR 3引物及 AMV 逆转录酶合成了单链的 cDNA。利用 PCR 技术,经30个循玎的扩增。得到了一特异的0.8kb 片段。克隆后对此片段进行了限制性内切酶物理图谱分析,并测定了其全序列。实验结果证明,我们克隆到的是完整的马铃薯 Y 病毒的外壳蛋白基因。与国外报道的马铃薯 Y 病毒 N 株相比,其核苷酸序列及推测的氨基酸序列的同源率分别为97.8%和97%。将该基因导入马铃薯以期获得抗 Y 病毒马铃薯的工作正在进行。本文还对 PCR 技术用于扩增植物 RNA 病毒的方法以及用基因工程方法培育抗病毒作物新品种的可行性等进行了讨论。     

HEAT INACTIVATION OF LEAF-ROLL VIRUS IN POTATO TUBERS

When potato tubers were stored at 37^-5^° C. in a humid atmosphere, some lost their germinating power after 20 days but others survived up to 40 days. All tubers infected with leaf-roll virus that survived 25 days at this temperature produced healthy plants. Similar treatments up to 40 days did not free tubers from potato viruses X and Y.     

THE INFLUENCE OF PLANTING DATE AND MANURING ON THE INCIDENCE OF VIRUS DISEASES IN POTATO CROPS

Field experiments with Majestic potatoes were made over six years at Rothamsted to test the effects of varying date of planting and manuring on the yield of tubers and the incidence of the aphid-transmitted leaf roll and Y (rugose mosaic) viruses. Yield was increased by early planting, and by all the manures, especially dung. Early planting also usually increased the incidence of virus disease. Different manures had different effects on disease incidence; the average results from all comparisons showed the largest increase in incidence of both viruses from the use of dung; sulphate of ammonia increased the incidence of leaf roll, and muriate of potash that of rugose mosaic. Counts in two years showed that aphid populations were highest on the earlier planted potatoes, and were increased by dung, sulphate of ammonia and superphosphate, but were reduced by muriate of potash.