Karen Valverde-Méndez, Eduardo J. Hernández, Dennis Matamoros, Natalia Barboza
{"title":"Begomovirus diversity in tomato crops in Costa Rica","authors":"Karen Valverde-Méndez, Eduardo J. Hernández, Dennis Matamoros, Natalia Barboza","doi":"10.1111/aab.12850","DOIUrl":"10.1111/aab.12850","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Begomoviruses (<i>Geminiviridae</i> family) are characterized by their high recombination rate and a wide range of hosts, making their control difficult. In Costa Rica, various species of bipartite begomoviruses have been reported, which are <i>Pepper golden mosaic virus</i> (PepGMV), <i>Tomato yellow mottle virus</i> (ToYMoV), <i>Tomato leaf curl Sinaloa virus</i> (ToLCSiV) and the monopartite begomovirus <i>Tomato yellow leaf curl virus</i> (TYLCV). Since the TYLCV first report in Costa Rica, neither additional knowledge has been produced on how this begomovirus has spread in the country's territory nor on the distribution of the other bipartite species. A total of 429 tomato samples collected during the years 2015–2016 were used to study these aspects. Each sample was georeferenced and analysed with various techniques such as nucleic acid hybridization, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and sequencing for the begomoviruses previously reported in Costa Rica. It was found that the presence/absence of the different species can vary, depending on the province. TYLCV is present in the six provinces analysed in this work, with a proportion from 3.7 to 86.6 per cent. Alajuela, Cartago, and Heredia are the provinces most affected by tomato-infecting begomoviruses. Fourteen different haplotypes of TYLCV were detected, but all were identified as TYLCV-IL. The distribution of TYLCV was related to the presence of the whitefly <i>Bemisia tabaci</i> MED, especially in the country's main tomato production areas. This information allows the phytosanitary surveillance services to develop strategies for the integrated management of the disease and to contribute data to the genetic improvement programmes of the crop.</p>","PeriodicalId":7977,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Applied Biology","volume":"183 3","pages":"231-243"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43288196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Joana Machado, Ana Patricia G. Fernandes, Boris Bokor, Marek Vaculík, Ep Heuvelink, Susana M. P. Carvalho, Marta W. Vasconcelos
{"title":"The effect of silicon on the antioxidant system of tomato seedlings exposed to individual and combined nitrogen and water deficit","authors":"Joana Machado, Ana Patricia G. Fernandes, Boris Bokor, Marek Vaculík, Ep Heuvelink, Susana M. P. Carvalho, Marta W. Vasconcelos","doi":"10.1111/aab.12849","DOIUrl":"10.1111/aab.12849","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Exploring sustainable strategies for improving crop water and nitrogen use efficiency is essential. Silicon (Si) has been reported as a beneficial metalloid for plants since it alleviates several abiotic stresses (including drought) by triggering the plants' antioxidant system. However, its role in mitigating the negative impact of nitrogen (N) deficit alone or when combined with water (W) deficit is not well studied. This study applied 0 or 2 mM of Na₂SiO<sub>3</sub> to 3-week-old tomato cv. Micro-Tom seedlings that were grown under the following conditions: control (CTR; 100%N + 100% Field Capacity), N deficit (N; 50% N + 100% Field Capacity), water deficit (W; 100% N + 50% Field Capacity) or combined stress (N + W; 50% N + 50% Field Capacity). The Si effect on tomato plant growth depended on the type of stress. Si could only alleviate stress caused by N + W deficit resulting in a higher root dry weight (by 28%), total dry weight (by 23%) and root length (by 37%). Alongside this, there was an increase in the antioxidant (AOX) system activity with the root activity of ascorbate peroxidase and catalase enzymes being enhanced by 48% and by 263%, respectively. Si application also enhanced AOX enzyme activity when tomato plants were subjected to individual deficits but to a lesser extent. In conclusion, Si-treated tomato plants could efficiently modulate their AOX networks in a situation of combined N and water limitation, thus mitigating some of the adverse effects of this combined stress.</p>","PeriodicalId":7977,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Applied Biology","volume":"184 1","pages":"50-60"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48248218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kadriye Çağlayan, Kivilcim Ördek, Mona Gazel, Eminur Elçi, Vahid Roumi, Janja Lamovšek, Irena Mavrič Pleško
{"title":"Incidence and genetic diversity of raspberry bushy dwarf virus (RBDV) in Rubus spp. in Turkey","authors":"Kadriye Çağlayan, Kivilcim Ördek, Mona Gazel, Eminur Elçi, Vahid Roumi, Janja Lamovšek, Irena Mavrič Pleško","doi":"10.1111/aab.12847","DOIUrl":"10.1111/aab.12847","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Raspberry bushy dwarf virus (RBDV), recently renamed to <i>Idaeovirus rubi</i>, is one of the most common viruses infecting <i>Rubus</i> species worldwide but there is still a limited number of genome sequences available in the GenBank database and the majority of the sequences include partial sequences of RNA-1 and RNA-2. The distribution and incidence of RBDV in main raspberry and blackberry growing provinces in Turkey were monitored during 2015–2019 and 537 <i>Rubus</i> spp. samples were tested by both DAS-ELISA and RT-PCR. Among the tested samples, 36 samples tested positive for RBDV by DAS-ELISA and 67 samples by RT-PCR. There was relatively low nucleotide diversity among the Turkish isolates. Turkish isolates shared 93%–97.7%, 84.3%–98.9%, and 85%–99.2% nucleotide sequence identities with available sequences in the GenBank, in partial RNA-1, movement protein (MP) and coat protein (CP) genes, respectively. In the phylogenetic tree constructed for RNA-1, MP, and CP sequences, all Turkish raspberry isolates were clustered in a distinct clade. However, the blackberry isolates showed considerable variation in nucleotide sequences and were placed in three distinct groups. The divergent blackberry isolates showed high variability in MP (84.5%–89.3%) and CP (85.5%–89.7%) regions and were placed in a distinct group. The rest of blackberry isolates clustered together with sweet cherry RBDV isolates adjacent to the grapevine clade or together with raspberry isolates. The comparative analysis conducted on three RNA segments of RBDV highlighted the high sequence diversity of Turkish RBDV isolates. This study also emphasizes the importance of regular monitoring of RBDV infections in Turkey, with special regard to those <i>Rubus</i> spp. and grapevine accessions employed in conservation and selection programmes. In particular, the presence of new RBDV genetic variants and infection of <i>Rubus</i> species must be taken into account to choose a correct detection protocol and management strategy.</p>","PeriodicalId":7977,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Applied Biology","volume":"183 3","pages":"209-219"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/aab.12847","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42073097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Aimee J. Tonks, Joe M. Roberts, Audun Midthassel, Tom Pope
{"title":"Exploiting volatile organic compounds in crop protection: A systematic review of 1-octen-3-ol and 3-octanone","authors":"Aimee J. Tonks, Joe M. Roberts, Audun Midthassel, Tom Pope","doi":"10.1111/aab.12846","DOIUrl":"10.1111/aab.12846","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The 21st century has brought new challenges to the agri-food industry due to population growth, global warming, and greater public awareness of environmental issues. Ensuring global food security for future generations is crucial. However, pests, weeds, and diseases still significantly contribute to crop losses, and the availability of effective conventional synthetic pesticides is decreasing. To address this, new and diverse pest management tools are needed. One pest management tool showing potential for invertebrate pest management is the exploitation of volatile organic compounds (VOCs)—in particular, the compounds 1-octen-3-ol and 3-octanone. This review aims to explore the extent to which 1-octen-3-ol and 3-octanone show potential in the future management of invertebrate crop and animal pests. A significant increase in the rate of publication of literature on the use of 1-octen-3-ol and 3-octanone in crop protection since 2018 is identified by this review, therefore, showing the potential importance of these compounds for use in future pest management. This review also identifies key interactions between naturally occurring biosynthesised 1-octen-3-ol and 3-octanone, and a range of invertebrate targets. Many of these interactions with key crop pests are sourced from the taxonomic families Lamiaceae, Fabaceae, and Trichomaceae. However, analysis of the practical application of these sources in an integrated pest management programme identifies clear limitations with the use of naturally occurring biosynthesised 1-octen-3-ol and 3-octanone. Rather, future focus should be placed on the development and exploitation of synthesised nature identical 1-octen-3-ol and 3-octanone for use as a biopesticide product. Overall, 1-octen-3-ol and 3-octanone show potential for exploitation in future crop protection, being abundant in source and diversity of invertebrate interactions. However, their use as a naturally occurring biosynthesised chemical is likely not practical for direct implementation in crop protection. Rather, focus should be placed on the development and exploitation of synthesised nature identical variants of these compounds for use as a biopesticide.</p>","PeriodicalId":7977,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Applied Biology","volume":"183 2","pages":"121-134"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/aab.12846","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42026342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The stressful life of an editor from a non-predatory journal","authors":"Ricardo A. Azevedo","doi":"10.1111/aab.12841","DOIUrl":"10.1111/aab.12841","url":null,"abstract":"<p>I hope that the title has caught your attention and perhaps intrigued you. Well, if you are an editor, you may well agree with most of my comments and most certainly have your own set of challenging issues. Thus, I hope you can read this and share your thoughts on social media or with your own editorials.</p><p>Am I complaining of being an editor? No, I am certainly not! This is one of the most enjoyable activities I took and despite all challenges that naturally are presented to me, most of the time it is good fun and rewarding. Taking part in the process of publishing someone else's work is terrific. When I see the finalized journal issue, I get—if possible—as excited as the authors, especially if their work is well received, commented, and seen by our scientific community. So, yes, I am totally happy as editor for <i>Annals of Applied Biology</i>.</p><p>I want to tell you a little bit more about <i>Annals</i>. In brief, it is a well-known journal with an excellent reputation within the scientific community, particularly among folks focusing broadly on agriculture. And it is not because one or another metric I affirm that. <i>Annals</i> (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/17447348) is a 109 years old journal, which published its first issue in May 1914 (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17447348/1914/1/1) opening with the editorial by Maxwell-Lefroy (see Maxwell-Lefroy, <span>1914</span>; The Annals of Applied Biology—https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-7348.1914.tb05406.x). The Centenary was celebrated in 2014 and in the first issue of that year we included a historical view of the journal (Azevedo et al., <span>2014</span>—https://doi.org/10.1111/aab.12093). We revisited the work published and asked a few colleagues to write about some of the topics that left their mark in the journal in the previous 100 years and how they evolved, advanced. Our mission does not focus on metrics, numbers, or anything like that, but on the impact of what we publish. Annals is published by Wiley (https://www.Wiley.com/en-us), which is endorsing the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA). The overarching goal of DORA is to shift emphasis away from journal-based metrics, toward article level metrics and individual author contribution. This supports a broader, more equitable view of research impact. Moreover, <i>Annals</i> is owned by the Association of Applied Biologists (AAB—https://www.aab.org.uk), a learned society and charity focused across many areas of Applied Biology. This partnership between AAB and Wiley has been very positive for the journal.</p><p>The COVID-19 pandemic was really something that shook the world and put us all to test in many different ways. What we easily noticed was a major increase in submissions during 2020–2021, followed by a reduction in 2022, while 2023 up to April is showing a similar trend to 2022. Was this a general trend, also observed for other journals? Perhaps, but what is really bothering me is that w","PeriodicalId":7977,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Applied Biology","volume":"183 1","pages":"4-6"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/aab.12841","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44384087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kyle Macleod, Shannon F. Greer, Lawrence E. Bramham, Ricardo J. G. Pimenta, Charlotte F. Nellist, Dieter Hackenburg, Graham R. Teakle, Guy C. Barker, John A. Walsh
{"title":"A review of sources of resistance to turnip yellows virus (TuYV) in Brassica species","authors":"Kyle Macleod, Shannon F. Greer, Lawrence E. Bramham, Ricardo J. G. Pimenta, Charlotte F. Nellist, Dieter Hackenburg, Graham R. Teakle, Guy C. Barker, John A. Walsh","doi":"10.1111/aab.12842","DOIUrl":"10.1111/aab.12842","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Turnip yellows virus (TuYV; previously known as beet western yellows virus) causes major diseases of <i>Brassica</i> species worldwide resulting in severe yield-losses in arable and vegetable crops. It has also been shown to reduce the quality of vegetables, particularly cabbage where it causes tip burn. Incidences of 100% have been recorded in commercial crops of winter oilseed rape (<i>Brassica napus</i>) and vegetable crops (particularly <i>Brassica oleracea</i>) in Europe. This review summarises the known sources of resistance to TuYV in <i>B. napus</i> (AACC genome), <i>Brassica rapa</i> (AA genome) and <i>B. oleracea</i> (CC genome). It also proposes names for the quantitative trait loci (QTLs) responsible for the resistances, <i><b>Tu</b>rnip <b>Y</b>ellows virus <b>R</b>esistance</i> (<i>TuYR</i>), that have been mapped to at least the chromosome level in the different <i>Brassica</i> species. There is currently only one known source of resistance deployed commercially (<i>TuYR1</i>). This resistance is said to have originated in <i>B. rapa</i> and was introgressed into the A genome of oilseed rape via hybridisation with <i>B. oleracea</i> to produce allotetraploid (AACC) plants that were then backcrossed into oilseed rape. It has been utilised in the majority of known TuYV-resistant oilseed rape varieties. This has placed significant selection pressure for resistance-breaking mutations arising in TuYV. Further QTLs for resistance to TuYV (<i>TuYR2</i>-<i>TuYR9</i>) have been mapped in the genomes of <i>B. napus</i>, <i>B. rapa</i> and <i>B. oleracea</i> and are described here. QTLs from the latter two species have been introgressed into allotetraploid plants, providing for the first time, combined resistance from both the A and the C genomes for deployment in oilseed rape. Introgression of these new resistances into commercial oilseed rape and vegetable brassicas can be accelerated using the molecular markers that have been developed. The deployment of these resistances should lessen selection pressure for resistance-breaking isolates of TuYV and thereby prolong the effectiveness of each other and extant resistance.</p>","PeriodicalId":7977,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Applied Biology","volume":"183 3","pages":"200-208"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/aab.12842","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48838856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Qian Xu, Junwen Bai, Lixin Ma, Ziqi Li, Bin Tan, Li Sun, Jianrong Cai
{"title":"Identification of multiple symptoms of Huanglongbing (\u0000 HLB\u0000 ) by electronic nose based on the variability of volatile organic compounds (\u0000 VOCs\u0000 )","authors":"Qian Xu, Junwen Bai, Lixin Ma, Ziqi Li, Bin Tan, Li Sun, Jianrong Cai","doi":"10.1111/aab.12845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aab.12845","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7977,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Applied Biology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49516723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}