Short Communication: Ageratum,Croton and Malvastrum harbour geminiviruses: evidence through PCR amplification |
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Authors: | Hallan V. Saxena S. Singh B.P. |
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Affiliation: | (1) Plant Virus Laboratory, National Botanical Research institute, Lucknow-, 226 001, India; Fax |
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Abstract: | Ageratum conyzoides, Croton bonpladianum and Malvastrum coromandelianum are common weeds found around agricultural fields. In several cases these were found to exhibit vein yellowing and yellow mosaic symptoms. Using degenerate primers specific for whitefly-transmitted geminiviruses (WTGs), and total DNA isolated from such infected plants (exhibiting the above symptoms) as a template, 1.2kbp fragments were amplified and were shown to have homology to DNA-A of Indian tomato leaf curl virus (ITLCV) by Southern hybridization. In control experiments the same primers failed to amplify any DNA fragments from the total DNA isolated from healthy plants (no symptoms as above). These results show that Ageratum, Croton and Malvastrum harbour geminivirus(es). |
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Keywords: | Weeds reservoir PCR amplification geminiviruses |
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