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Cucumber mosaic virus 2b protein compensates for restricted systemic spread of Potato virus Y in doubly infected tobacco

¹ Graduate School of Agriculture and Biological Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University, Gakuen-cho, Sakai, Osaka 599-8531, Japan
² Kyoto Prefectural Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto 619-0244, Japan

Correspondence
Satoshi T. Ohki
ohki{at}plant.osakafu-u.ac.jp

Tobacco plants (Nicotiana tabacum cv. Xanthi-nc) inoculated with a necrotic strain of Potato virus Y (PVY, T01 isolate) developed necrotic symptoms in some systemically infected leaves, but not in younger leaves. However, PVY expressed distinct symptoms not only in the older leaves, but also in the younger leaves, of plants that had been doubly inoculated with PVY and with Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV, strain Pepo). A tissue blot immunoassay of tissues from various positions of the stem detected PVY weakly in each stem, but not in the shoot apex, of singly infected plants, whereas PVY was detected at high levels in almost all sections of doubly infected plants. CMV was also detected at high levels in sections of singly and doubly infected plants. Immunohistochemistry of stem tissues showed that in singly infected plants, PVY was confined to external phloem cells and was not detected in internal phloem cells. However, in doubly infected plants, PVY was distributed uniformly throughout whole tissues, including the external phloem, xylem parenchyma and internal phloem cells. In plants that were doubly infected with PVY and Pepo2b, a modified CMV that cannot translate the 2b protein, the spread of PVY was restricted as in singly infected plants. These results suggested that the plant host has a counterdefence mechanism that restricts systemic spread of PVY T01, and that the 2b protein of CMV strain Pepo negates this restriction.

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