Detection and Characterization of Viroids via Biological Assays on Herbaceous Hosts.

Methods Mol Biol

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), Molecular Plant Pathology Laboratory, Beltsville, MD, USA.

Published: January 2022

The characterization of the elusive disease agent of the potato spindle tuber disease, potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd), was aided by the ability to obtain large amounts of infected tomato tissue in a simple bioassay where PSTVd was easily mechanically transmissible to an alternate herbaceous host in which it thrived and produced dramatic symptoms in a relatively short period (Diener, Viroids. Handbook of plant virus infections: comparative diagnosis. Elsevier/North-Holland, Amsterdam, pp 913-934, 1981; Diener, Virology 45:411-428, 1971; Raymer and O'Brien, Am Pot J, 39:401-408, 1962). Reactions in the primary, or secondary, herbaceous indicator host can range from asymptomatic to severe depending upon the viroid strain, host species, and environmental conditions and can provide evidence of a viroid infection, but do not permit identification of the viroid in question. Further characterization by molecular hybridization, RT-PCR, and sequence analysis is used to determine the etiology of the disease agent. In this chapter, methods are described for mechanical inoculation of viroids to herbaceous hosts to determine the viroid nature of diseases and the experimental host range of the viroid or to shorten the time required for obtaining relatively large amounts of viroid for subsequent purification and characterization.

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