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Distribution of Determinants for Symptom Production, Host Range and Nematode Transmissibility between the two RNA Components of Raspberry Ringspot Virus

Scottish Horticultural Research Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee, Scotland

Raspberry ringspot virus has two RNA species, of mol. wt. about 2.4 x 10⁶ (RNA-1) and 1.4 x 10⁶ (RNA-2). In experiments with four naturally occurring strains, virus hybrids were made by mixing RNA-1 and RNA-2 preparations from different strains. Parent strains were regenerated by crossing appropriate hybrids. In the crosses, both serological specificity and transmissibility by the nematode Longidorus elongatus were determined by RNA-2, suggesting that the protein surface of the virus particles is involved in the transmission process. Ability of isolates to cause systemic yellowing in Petunia hybrida, previously found to be also controlled by RNA-2, was shown to be associated with distinctive ultrastructural changes in the chloroplasts. Severity of systemic symptoms in Chenopodium quinoa and other herbaceous hosts, ability to infect Lloyd George raspberry and ability to invade the non-inoculated leaves of Phaseolus vulgaris, were all determined by RNA-1. Both RNA species played a part in determining lesion type in inoculated leaves of Chenopodium amaranticolor and C. quinoa, and in some crosses the two kinds of hybrid were respectively less virulent and more virulent than either parent. The determinant for systemic symptoms in Petunia hybrida that is carried by RNA-2 was not expressed when in association with RNA-1 from the strain able to infect Lloyd George raspberry. Some genes of raspberry ringspot virus are probably pleiotropic.

Received 13 August 1973; accepted 13 October 1973.