Lehnhoff, E., Miller, Z., Menalled, F., Ito, D., and Burrows, M. 2015. Wheat and barley susceptibility and tolerance to multiple isolates ofWheat streak mosaic virus. Plant Dis. 99:1383-1389. One of the greatest virus disease threats to wheat production in the Great Plains of the USA isWheat streak mosaic virus (WSMV). Breeding programs have developed wheat varieties that are resistant or toler...

Journal of Plant Registrations, Vol. 3, No. 1, January 2009 51 W heat streak mosaic virus (WSMV) is one of the most common, and devastating, diseases impacting wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) production in the western Great Plains of North America. Annual production losses of 5% have been estimated, although severe local WSMV infection can result in complete crop failure (French and Stenger, Regis...

Viral determinants involved in systemic infection of hosts by monocot-infecting plant viruses are poorly understood. Wheat streak mosaic virus (WSMV, genus Tritimovirus, family Potyviridae) exclusively infects monocotyledonous crops such as wheat, oat, barley, maize, triticale, and rye. Previously, we reported that WSMV CP amino acids 36-84 are expendable for systemic infection of wheat, maize,...

A Wheat streak mosaic virus (WSMV) genome lacking HC-Pro was constructed and confirmed by reverse transcription-PCR to systemically infect wheat, oat, and corn. Coupled in vitro transcription/translation reactions indicated that WSMV P1 proteinase cleaved the polyprotein at the P1/P3 junction of the HC-Pro null mutant. The WSMV HC-Pro null mutant was competent for virion formation, but the viru...

Seifers, D. L., Tatineni, S., and French, R. 2013. Variants of Triticum mosaic virus isolated from wheat in Colorado show divergent biological behavior. Plant Dis. 97:903-911. Triticum mosaic virus (TriMV) is a recently discovered virus infecting wheat. We compared Colorado isolates C10-492 and C11-775 with the 06-123 isolate. Comparisons were made using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA...

Wheat streak mosaic (WSM), caused by Wheat streak mosaic virus (WSMV), is a devastating disease in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) in the Great Plains of North America. Use of resistance is an effective and environmentally sound method to control the disease. In this study, six wheat genotypes were compared for their responses to WSMV infection under growth chamber conditions. The three resistant ...

Temperature is one of the key factors that influence viral disease development in plants. In this study, temperature effect onWheat streak mosaic virus (WSMV) replication and in planta movement was determined using a green fluorescent protein (GFP)-tagged virus in twowinter wheat cultivars. Virus-inoculated plants were first incubated at 10, 15, 20, and 25°C for 21 days, followed by 27°C for 14...

Wheat curl mite (WCM) is the only known arthropod vector of four wheat viruses, most important which streak mosaic virus (WSMV). Host resistance to WCM and WSMV limited a small number loci, are introgressed from wild relatives often associated with linkage drag temperature sensitivity. Reports virulent populations potential resistance-breaking isolates highlight need for more diverse sources re...

The eriophyid mite transmitted Wheat streak mosaic virus (WSMV; genus Tritimovirus, family Potyviridae) shares a common genome organization with aphid transmitted species of the genus Potyvirus. Although both tritimoviruses and potyviruses encode helper component-proteinase (HC-Pro) homologues (required for nonpersistent aphid transmission of potyviruses), sequence conservation is low (amino ac...