Rhizomania, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016

Coordinators: Biancardi Enrico, Tamada Tetsuo

Language: English

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The knowledge of ecology and epidemiology of rhizomania is particularly useful to understand the means and practices able to limit or avoid its further diffusion. Some promising methods of biological control using coexisting and non-pathogenic organisms could potentially help improve the action of the not completely effective genetic resistances. This integrated protection would be valuable, especially in the even more frequent development of resistance?breaking strains in the BNYVV, where the known types of resistance, alone or in combination, seem to have lost part of their original ability to protect the crop. Therefore, further efforts will be needed to discover new traits likely still present in the wild species of the genus Beta. The availability of large collections of germplasm stored in the International Beta gene-banks should ensure the enhanced efficiency of genetic resistance by means of conventional and marker-assisted selection methods. Some almost immune transgenic varieties seem already to be waiting for release where and when it will be possible. The introduction chapter describes briefly the sugar beet crop, the more common diseases, and the damage caused by rhizomania. The following chapters discuss biological properties of the causal virus, BNYVV, and its vector, Polymyxa betae, and their interactions with the environment and the host-plant. In particular, the great advances in research of the molecular biology of BNYVV should be noteworthy, which have been established by a wide range of the most modern methods. Recent work focused on the genetic diversity and evolution of BNYVV is moving forward our understanding of the dramatic worldwide epidemics of rhizomania. Newly developed molecular techniques also lead to practical applications, such as quantification of inoculum in ecological and epidemiological research.

 

1   Introduction  
    1.1  Beets and Sugar Beets
    1.2  Abiotic Stresses 
    1.3  Pests and Diseases
    1.4  Rhizomania and Economic Damages
2   Rhizomania: History and Current Status
     2.1  First Observations and Investigations
     2.2  Etiology
     2.3  Histological Observations
     2.4  Spreading of the Disease
3  The Causal Agents: Beet Necrotic Yellow Vein  
     Virus 
    3.1  Host Range and Symptoms
    3.2  Strains
    3.3  Transmission by Vectors 
    3.4  Properties of Virus Particles
    3.5  Properties of Genome
    3.6  Effect of Small RNA Species on Root   
          Symptoms
    3.7  Cytopathological Effect
    3.8  Detection and Diagnosis 
    3.9  Other Soil-Borne Viruses Associated with 
           Rhizomania
4  Molecular Biology and Replication of Beet    
     Necrotic Yellow Vein Virus 
    4.1  Replication and Cis elements
    4.2  Origin of Assembly  
    4.3  Movement
    4.4  Pathogenicity Determinants and Counter 
           Defense Mechanisms
    4.5  Silencing Suppression and Movement of  
           BNYVV   
    4.6  Future and Prospects: RNA-RNA Network in the   
           Regulation of “a BNYVV Life”
5  Genetic Diversity of Beet Necrotic Yellow Vein 
    Virus   
    5.1  Benyvirus
    5.2  Variation
    5.3  Geographical Origins and Migration
    5.4  Emergence of Resistance-Breaking Variants
    5.5  Conclusions
6  The Viral Vector Polymyxa betae 
    6.1  Taxonomy
    6.2  Life Cycles of Plasmadiophorids
    6.3  Infection and Germination of Polymyxa betae
    6.4  Host Range and Genetic Diversity
    6.5  Virus-Vector Relationship
    6.6  Detection and Discrimination
    6.7  Conclusions  
7  Ecology and Epidemiology 
    7.1  Inoculum
    7.2  Dispersal
    7.3  Factors Affecting Infection and Disease   
           Development
    7.4  Modeling for Infection and Spread 
8  Control  
    8.1  Disease Effects and Damages 
    8.2  Agronomic Control 
    8.3  Chemical and Thermal Control 
    8.4  Biological Control 
9  Genetic Resistances  
    9.1  Sources of Resistance 
    9.2  Resistances to BNYVV 
    9.3  Multiple BNYVV Resistance    9.4  Resistance to Polymyxa betae 
    9.5  Resistant Varieties
    9,6  Mechanisms of Resistance 
    9.7 Germplasm Conservation in the Service of Plant
          Breeding
10 Engineering Transgenic Rhizomania Resistance 
    10.1  Introduction    
    10.2  Pathogen-derived Resistance
    10.3  RNA Silencing-Mediated Resistance
    10.4  Resistance Based on Genes of Non-viral Origin
    10.5  Concluding Remarks    
11 Breeding Methods
    11.1  Screening for Resistance 
    11.2  Breeding for Resistant Varieties
    11.3  Field Trials and Release of Varieties
12  Assisted Selection <
    12.1  Soil Sampling
    12.2  Roots and Leaves Sampling
    12.3  Sampling for Genome Analyses
    12.4  Conventional Chemical Analyses
    12.5  Beet Necrotic Yellow Vein Virus Concentration
    12.6  Polymyxa betae Concentration
13 Perspective

Dr. Enrico Biancardi graduated in agronomy at the University of Bologna. At the Istituto Sperimentale per le Colture Industriali (formerly Stazione Sperimentale di Bieticoltura, Rovigo), he was devoted to, among other things, improving the processing quality of sugar beet in relation to the nitrogen content of the soil. Since 1977, his activity has been directed towards the breeding of resistances to cercospora leaf spot and, above all, to rhizomania. Selecting within the germplasm stored in the Institute, including hybrids made with Beta maritima collected along the Mediterranean coasts, several male-sterile lines and varieties have been developed, released, and utilized commercially. A significant part of the activity on Beta maritima was carried out in collaboration with the USDA-ARS Stations. He has authored and edited books, chapters, and around 150 publications. Retired in 2009, he currently collaborates with some American, English, and Italian breeders.

"Tetsuo Tamada was born in Hokkaido in 1941, is a graduate of Yamagata University, and obtained a PhD from Hokkaido University.  He joined the Hokkaido Central Agricultural Experiment Station from 1964-1995 and was  visiting scientist at the James Hutton Institute (formerly Scottish Crop Research Institute), UK, for 18 months (1979-1980). He accepted a position as  Professor of Institute of Plant Science and Resources (formerly Research Institute for Bioresources), Okayama University from 1995-2007 and has been a Special Adviser of Agricultural Research Institute, Hokuren Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives, since 2013. His research interests include plant pathology, virology, and molecular biology. Prof. Tamada has published over 150 research papers and reviews on the topic of plant viruses". 

The book treats theoretical and practical aspects

Reviews the developments obtained in around 50 years from the discovery

Describes the recent and expected improvements of the genetic resistance

One-of-a-kind text entirely devoted to Rhizomania