Theses and Dissertations

Issuing Body

Mississippi State University

Advisor

Sabanadzovic, Sead

Committee Member

Ma, Din-Pow

Committee Member

Tzanetakis, E. Ioannis

Committee Member

Aboughanem, Nina

Committee Member

Lu, Shien

Date of Degree

5-17-2014

Document Type

Graduate Thesis - Open Access

Major

Agriclture and Life Sciences

Degree Name

Master of Science

College

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Department

Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Entomology and Plant Pathology

Abstract

Blackberry yellow vein disease (BYVD) is the most important virus disease of blackberry in the Southeastern United States. In order to determine viruses in BYVD-affected plants in Mississippi we tested a total of eighty one symptomatic cultivated and wild blackberries collected from different locations for infections by nine different viruses. All tested viruses were present in diseased samples at various rates, with the exception of Rubus canadensis virus 1. Blackberry yellow vein associated virus is prevalent virus in Mississippi, infecting 70% of tested samples, followed by Tobacco ringspot virus. The second part of this research focused on molecular and phylogenetic studies concerning a putatively new virus species, provisionally referred to as Blackberry virus X and present in approximately 27% of the tested samples. Data generated in this study suggest that BVX is a novel species in the family Betaflexiviridae, with final taxonomic allocation (at the genus level) yet to be determined.

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/11668/17688

Comments

viruses||Blackberry yellow vein disease

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