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ArticleFrontiers in plant science2017

Incomplete Infection of Secondarily Infected Potato Plants - an Environment Dependent Underestimated Mechanism in Plant Virology.

Lukas Bertschinger, Lukas Bühler, Brice Dupuis, Brion Duffy, Cesare Gessler, Gregory A Forbes, Ernst R Keller, Urs C Scheidegger, Paul C Struik

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Article in Frontiers in plant science, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 40 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors at 6 institutions in 3 countries.

Lukas BertschingerAgroscope, Institute of Plant Production SciencesNyon/Wädenswil, Switzerland; Programa de Investigaciones en Papa, Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agraria y Agroindustrial, Ministerio de AgriculturaLima, Peru; Institute for Integrative Biology, Department of Environmental Systems Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETZ)Zürich, Switzerland.
Lukas BühlerAgroscope, Institute of Plant Production Sciences Nyon/Wädenswil, Switzerland.
Brice DupuisAgroscope, Institute of Plant Production Sciences Nyon/Wädenswil, Switzerland.
Brion DuffySchool of Life Sciences and Facility Management, Zürich University of Applied Sciences Wädenswil, Switzerland.
Cesare GesslerInstitute for Integrative Biology, Department of Environmental Systems Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETZ) Zürich, Switzerland.
Gregory A ForbesInternational Potato Center Lima, Peru.
Ernst R KellerInstitute for Agricultural Science, Department of Environmental Systems Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETZ) Zürich, Switzerland.
Urs C ScheideggerPrograma de Investigaciones en Papa, Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agraria y Agroindustrial, Ministerio de AgriculturaLima, Peru; School of Agriculture, Forest and Food Sciences, Bern University of Applied SciencesZollikofen, Switzerland.
Paul C StruikCentre for Crop Systems Analysis, Plant Sciences, Wageningen University and Research Wageningen, Netherlands.
Agroscope · CHBern University of Applied Sciences · CHInternational Potato Center · PENational Agrarian University · PEWageningen University & Research · NLZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences · CH

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The common assumption in potato virus epidemiology is that all daughter tubers produced by plants coming from infected mother tubers (secondary infection) will become infected via systemic translocation of the virus during growth. We hypothesize that depending on the prevalent environmental conditions, only a portion of the daughter tubers of a plant that is secondarily infected by viruses may become infected. To test this hypothesis experimental data from standardized field experiments were produced in three contrasting environments at 112, 3280, and 4000 m a.s.l. in Peru during two growing seasons. In these experiments, the percentage of infected daughter tubers produced by seed tubers that were infected with either potato potexvirus X (PVX), potato Andean mottle comovirus (APMoV), potato potyvirus Y (PVY) (jointly infected with PVX) or potato leafroll luteovirus (PLRV) was determined. Incomplete autoinfection was found in all cases, as the percentage of virus infected daughter tubers harvested from secondarily infected plants was invariably less than 100%, with the lowest percentage of infection being 30%. Changing the growing site to higher altitudes decreased autoinfection for all viruses. Therefore, the assumption of complete autoinfection of secondarily infected plants were rejected, while the hypothesis of environmentally dependent incomplete autoinfection was accepted. The findings help explain the occurrence of traditional seed management practices in the Andes and may help to develop locally adapted seed systems in environments of the world that have no steady access to healthy seed tubers coming from a formally certified seed system. The results obtained almost three decades ago are discussed in light of most recent knowledge on epigenetic regulation of host plant - virus interactions which allow for speculating about the underlying biological principles of the incomplete autoinfection. A research roadmap is proposed for achieving explicit experimental proof for the epigenetic regulation of incomplete autoinfection in the pathosystem under study.

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autoinfectionclimate changeepigeneticsfood securitygene-silencingplant virusesseed degenerationseed potato systems

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PMID28217131
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