Vol. 6, Issue 3 (2018)
First report of strawberry mild yellow edge virus in India
Author(s): Abhilasha Sharma, Anil Handa, Shelly Kapoor and Bunty Shylla
Abstract: Garden strawberry (Fragaria ananassa Duch.) plants with symptoms typical of viral infection in the form of mild mottling, cupping of leaflets and leaf deformation were observedatone of the two locations surveyedin Solan and Shimla districts of Himachal Pradesh, India. The main objective of this study was to characterize the causal agent of this diseaseserologically using DAS-ELISA. Infected plants exhibited symptoms that have not been reported so far in strawberry plants from India. The virus was detected using DAS-ELISA in both symptomatic and symptomless plants. Keeping in view the importance of thisrelativelyunknown virus from India, the present studies were conducted to characterize the causal virus serologicallyon the basis of direct DAS-ELISA tests conducted for the purpose. On the basis of the results obtained in direct DAS-ELISA, it was concluded that only three isolates collected from the location in Solan district yielded positive results for SMYEV whereas none of the isolates from Shimla district tested positive for the virus. This is the first report of SMYEV infecting strawberry in India. This valuable information can be put to use in the development of certification programmes aimed at producing healthy planting material in the larger interest of commercial strawberry units functional in India
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Abhilasha Sharma, Anil Handa, Shelly Kapoor, Bunty Shylla. First report of strawberry mild yellow edge virus in India. Int J Chem Stud 2018;6(3):662-664.
