| Tobacco mosaic virus Detected in Vegetatively Propagated Petunia Hybrids ``Surfinia`` |
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Bong Nam Chung, Jeong Soo Kim, Jeom Deog Cho, Seung Ryong Cheong, Myeong Il Jeong |
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| Abstract |
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Introduction of vegetatively propagated Petunia hybrids since 1992 led to increasing virus infections of propagation material. Petunia hybrid ``Surfinia`` cultivated for pot-plant showed yellowing symptom along with stunt. Flowers were smaller in size and showed color-break symptom. Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV-pet) was isolated from the diseased petunia. Healthy petunia plants inoculated with TMV-pet induced mottle on leaves and color-break on flowers, and plants were stunted. Nucleotide sequences of coat protein gene amplified from RNA prepared from Nicotiana tabacum cv. Samsun infected with TMV-pet were determined (GenBank accession no. DQ981481). It showed 99.0% nucleotide sequence homology with TMV-potato3-2 (GenBank accession no. AF318215) isolated from potato showing yellow mosaic and stunt symptom, and with a TMV Korean strain (GenBank accession no. X68110). This is the first reported observation of TMV from vegetatively propagated petunia in Korea. |
| Key Words:
Petunia, Tobacco mosaic virus |
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