WERA_OLD20: Virus and Virus-Like Diseases of Fruit Trees, Small Fruits, and Grapevines.
(Multistate Research Coordinating Committee and Information Exchange Group)
Status: Inactive/Terminating
WERA_OLD20: Virus and Virus-Like Diseases of Fruit Trees, Small Fruits, and Grapevines.
Duration: 10/01/2006 to 09/30/2011
Administrative Advisor(s):
NIFA Reps:
Non-Technical Summary
Statement of Issues and Justification
Diseases caused by viruses and virus-like organisms continue to be important to tree fruit and berry industries in the United States and Canada. The impact of these pathogens can be significant and often limit the economic and biological viability of fruit production. WERA-0020 facilitates a reduction in the impact of disease on this sector of agriculture by providing a forum for information exchange at annual meetings and by establishing contacts that encourage communication throughout the year. The discovery of Plum pox virus (PPV) in North America in 1999, and in Canada in 2000, had an immediate impact on the tree fruit and nursery industries. Globally, this aphid-transmitted virus is the most economically important virus of stone fruits. Subsequently, $80 million US and $65 million CDN have been spent in attempts to detect, eradicate and or manage the virus. The diagnosis of PPV was hastened because WERA-0020 provided a network of researchers and specialists that were able to make the preliminary diagnosis and insure that the necessary testing was conducted to confirm this diagnosis. WERA-0020 continues to foster experts that provided leadership and advice in developing testing and management strategies. Several members of WERA-0020 serve on the science panel which has been overseeing the work on PPV in the US and members have made significant contributions to the work on PPV in Canada. Pollen-borne ilarviruses and nematode-transmitted nepoviruses cause significant decreases in orchard, raspberry, blueberry and vineyard production throughout the United States. Citrus tristeza virus (CTV) is a major limitation to citrus production worldwide and efforts to control this disease in California and Arizona have been critical to maintaining the viability of this fruit tree industry in the western United States. Grapevine leafroll virus, corky bark, rugose wood, Rupestris stem-pitting associated virus and other graft-transmissible pathogens contribute to the decline of grapevines, decrease vegetative growth and fruit yields. Raspberry bushy dwarf virus causes serious yield and quality losses in Rubus spp. and Blueberry scorch carlavirus is becoming a major disease problem in blueberry in the Pacific Northwest and in the Northeast. WERA-0020 also promotes the exchange of information on diseases caused by isolates of the bacteria Xylella on citrus (variegated chlorosis), coffee (leaf scorch), peach (phony), almond (leaf scorch), and grape (Pierce's disease). Phytoplasmas that cause diseases such as Western X disease, pear decline, and peach yellow leafroll seriously reduce the production of stone and pome fruits in the western region of the United States. Phytoplasmas that cause the diseases typically associated with the eastern peach industry (Yellows, rosette, and red suture) are closely related to Western X and, although devastating when present, occur erratically. Although bacterial in nature, phytoplasmas and Xylella spp. have many features in common with viruses such as systemic infection, vector transmission, and graft transmission. WERA-0020 is a unique network that encourages interaction among regulatory, research, and extension personnel. Through this group, WERA-0020 has been effective in providing information and solutions to disease problems and transferring technologies between states and across provincial lines. The cause of a disease affecting significant acreages of blackberry in the southern and southeastern US (Blackberry yellow vein associated virus) was determined through collaboration among members of WERA-0020 in the southeast and on the West Coast. Many of our members are the sole person involved with diseases of fruit trees, small fruits or grapevines in their state. WERA-0020 has fostered the exchange of new and recent information on research findings and regulatory concerns and helps researchers keep current with rapid developments in detection technology. Cooperative projects involving K. Eastwell (Washington State University (WSU)), R.R. Martin (USDA Corvallis, OR), and others have defined the viruses that affect grapevines in Oregon and Washington states. The expertise of R.R. Martin has been used nationally to elucidate the cause of, and establish a molecular test for, pallidosis disease of strawberry. This test has eliminated some of the restrictions on detecting the disease imposed by the use of bioassays and allows better certification of propagative material to control a disease that is widespread in the mid-atlantic states.
Advances in detection and virus treatment technologies during the late 1980's and the 1990's have been impressive and extremely useful. Immunological assays (i.e. ELISA), nucleic acid hybridization assays and amplification of virus, viroid and phytoplasma nucleic acids using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) have been developed for disease detection and to understand relationships between organisms. The dependence of quarantine and certification programs and research programs on these techniques has increased dramatically. Together, these technologies have been critical to developing our knowledge of fruit diseases and their epidemiology. Detection tools are at the heart of clean nursery stock programs that have been implemented by several states and British Columbia. These programs have greatly improved the quality of orchards that use certified pathogen-tested nursery stock and contribute to the reduction in new diseases entering regions. The advice and information generated from group meetings has been important to programs that provide foundation grade material for clean stock programs (i.e. NRSP-5 at WSU, FPMS at UC Davis and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) at the Centre for Plant Health, B.C.) in designing rapid and accurate diagnostic techniques. New insights into the etiology of several diseases of fruit trees and grapevines have been essential in formulating quarantine regulations based on the most recent research findings.
Objectives
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Promote and improve communication and cooperation among entomologists, plant pathologists, horticulturists, and other professionals concerned about plant health to determine the vectors of virus and virus-like diseases and to investigate the role of vector biology in the epidemiology of diseases.
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Encourage, facilitate, and speed work on the cause and control of newly detected diseases and disorders by increasing contacts and communication on newly discovered problems likely to be caused by viruses or virus-like agents.
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Facilitate rapid adoption and proper use of newly developed techniques and information that aid in the characterization and detection of virus and virus-like plant pathogens.
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Provide information and expertise (research and extension) to help in the management of PPV.
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Provide a source of research information and service to quarantine and certification agencies, germplasm repositories, experiment station and government administrative agencies nationwide and the tree fruit, small fruit and grapevine industries.
Procedures and Activities
WERA-020 will hold an annual meeting so that participants and others of similar interests can be made aware of current research in the field of virus and virus-like diseases of fruit trees, small fruits, and grapevines. Reports of research from the participants are presented and the ensuing discussion allows for advice to be offered in situations were recalcitrant problems have been encountered. These meetings involve a day trip to view disease symptoms in the field allowing those who are new to the subject to be come familiar with newly reported diseases, to expose participants to problems that are of restricted distribution, and also to show localized industries with special problems and solutions. For example, in 2001 the field trip took participants to peach orchards in Pennsylavania where symptoms of Plum pox virus, and the methods being used to survey for the pathogen, were viewed. On other trips, work on Pierce's disease on grape in California was displayed and Cherry rasp leaf virus and Peach mosaic virus were seen in Colorado. In 2005 the Blackberry certification program, established to eliminate problems associated with Blackberry Yellow vein associated virus in the southeastern US, was visited. This is a collaborative effort between NC State University (expertise in viral detection and tissue culture), University of Arkansas (source of the blackberry cultivars that are currently in demand), and a commercial blackberry propagator in North Carolina. The overall format of the meeting allows for informal discussion of work in progress, of completed work prior to publication, and establishment of collaborative efforts where interests coincide. Formal and informal participation of all groups (research, extension, and industry) in this project is encouraged.
Expected Outcomes and Impacts
- Identification and characterization of the phytopathogenic viruses, viroids, and phytoplasmas that impact fruit tree, small fruit and grapevine production in North America and Hawaii. Pathogen isolates will be exchanged as necessary and with properly authorized permits. Newly developed molecular diagnostic reagents and procedures that allow better characterization of diverse fruit tree, small fruit and grapevine pathogens will also be distributed.
- Develop and evaluate techniques to produce and maintain pathogen-free planting materials. Provide scientific expertise to stakeholders, as well as state and federal programs that disseminate planting materials.
- Develop, optimize, and disseminate standard detection protocols to WERA-0020 members, clean stock programs such as NRSP-5; FPMS (CA); Oregon Nursery Services, as well as state and federal (APHIS and CFIA) regulatory agencies. Compare the accuracy and reliability of rapid pathogen detection/identification techniques with graft-indexing protocols currently used in clean stock and regulatory programs. The successful implementation and acceptance of rapid pathogen detection systems will save commercial nurseries and governmental agencies considerable money, space and time. In addition to providing protection against foreign, exotic pathogens, new diagnostic capabilities will expedite the introduction of new planting materials and keep American and Canadian growers competitive in the world marketplace.
- Identify and develop control programs for fruit tree, small fruit and grapevine viruses and phytoplasmas vectored by insects and nematodes. WERA-0020 membership has always, and continues, to include entomologists, nematologists and plant pathologists. Productive and significant research on the biology of virus vectors requires interdisciplinary collaboration. Several WERA-0020 members from the United States and Canada (Eastwell, Halbrendt, Levy, Scott, Thompson, Uyemoto, Welliver) continue to participate in coordinated efforts to develop disease and plant management strategies to limit the spread and impact of Plum pox virus in North America.
- Continue to conduct collaborative research on pathogens that impact common crops grown in geographically diverse areas. Disease management strategies developed for one type of pathogen or crop in one geographical area are often applicable to managing the disease in other areas. Collaborative efforts would thus save considerable time and resources by completing the research in a timely fashion and avoiding unnecessary duplication of research efforts.
- There are less than ten principal investigators (PI) in the US with programs involving virus and virus-like diseases of fruit trees, small fruits and grapevines, while many individual European countries have many more PIs focused on this area. WERA-020 brings together research, extension, and regulatory activities on economically important fruit crops so they are sustained despite a critical mass of researchers that is insufficient for the needs of the industries that their research supports. Many of the problems involved in the detection, identification and management of viral diseases are the same in all of the crops represented by WERA-020. Open discussion between members and guests of all facets of virus disease control generate and stimulate appropriate approaches for solving disease management problems.
Projected Participation
View Appendix E: ParticipationEducational Plan
Annual meetings and written progress reports provide important forums for WERA-0020 members to become acquainted with the most recent research accomplishments and emerging disease situations. Minutes of annual meetings are displayed at the Western Association of Agricultural Experiment Station Director's website (http://www.colostate.edu/Orgs/WAAESD/). Several WERA-0020 members, including Howell, Kirkpatrick, Uyemoto, Rowhani, and Thompson, are participants in clean stock programs (NRSP-5; FPMS, CFIA) or federal regulatory agencies (APHIS, CFIA). Information presented at WERA-0020 meetings is therefore rapidly assimilated and, where feasible, quickly integrated into these programs. Other state and federal regulatory personnel often attend WERA-0020 meetings. The results of our collaborations are often transferred to clientele via Cooperative Extension Services, and WERA-0020 members regularly publish the results of collaborative research efforts in refereed discipline oriented and popular press publications (see Publications in Appendix).
Organization/Governance
Chair serves a term of one year. Previous year's secretary moves to Chair position. Duties include organizing annual meeting and chairing the meeting.
Secretary serves a term of one year. Elected from committee membership. Duties include recording minutes and disseminating them to members by means e-mail and reporting minutes to NIMMS system. Guidance from Administrative advisor and CSREES representative as necessary. The annual general meeting will alternate between east and west coast.
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2003
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2004
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Tzanetakis IE, Martin, RR. 2004. Complete Nucleotide Sequence of a Strawberry Isolate of Beet pseudo yellows virus. Virus Genes 28:239-246.
Tzanetakis IE, Mackey IC, Martin RR 2004. Strawberry necrotic shock virus: A new virus previously thought to be Tobacco streak virus. Acta Hort. 656:27-31.
Tzanetakis IE, Mackey IC, Martin RR. 2004. Strawberry necrotic shock virus is a distinct virus and not a strain of Tobacco streak virus. Arch. Virol. 149:2001-2011.
Tzanetakis IE, Halgren AB, Keller KE, Hokanson SC, McCarthy PL, Maas JL, Martin RR. 2004. Identification and detection of a virus associated with strawberry pallidosis disease. Plant Dis. 88:383-390.
Tzanetakis IE, Halgren AB, Wintermantel WM, Keller KE, Martin RR. 2004. Two criniviruses are associated with the strawberry pallidosis disease. Acta Hort. 656:21-26.
Uyemoto JK 2004. Evidence for the involvement of viruses and decline of young grape plants. Proc. 52nd Grape Day, University of California Cooperative Extension, Lodi, CA. p. 35. February 3.
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2005
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