Author(s)

Haiko Enok Sawazaki¹, Valdir Atsushi Yuki¹, Marlon Ricardo Alvez Ortiz², Walter Hissao Banja², Julio Massaharu Marubayashi², Karoline S. Fonseca³, Geovanni A. Luchini³, Renan G. Perroni³, Wallison M. O. Andrade³

¹Instituto Agronômico-APTA, Campinas, Brazil.
²Hortec Sementes Ltda, Bragança Paulista, Brazil.
³CNPq/PIBITI Scholarship Training, Campinas, Brazil.

Screening for the source of virus resistance in horticultural plants or specific characterization as hybridization, through symptoms, requires time and depends on the weather and knowledge of plant characteristics. So, it is important to develop specific gene markers to allow rapid diagnosis by PCR. Markers were developed based on sequences homology comparison of susceptible and resistant plants provided by HORTEC SEEDS in tomato for Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) by the resistance gene Ty-1, in zucchini for Zucchini yellow mosaic virus (ZYMV) and Papaya ringspot virus estirpe watermelon (PRSV-W), and in lettuce for Lettuce mosaic virus (LMV). Fragments of 249 bp were amplified only by resistant plants to TYLCV as the hybrids 2648 and Aguamiel, and not for varieties as Santa Cruz or Carina. It were observed for ZYMV the amplification of 791 bp by the resistant hybrid Px7051 and not for the susceptible cultivar La Belle; for PRSV-W using the same zucchini plants the amplification of 650 bp for susceptible and 750 bp for resistant; for LMV the 421 bp amplification only for the resistant cultivar Brasil 303 and not for susceptible Babá de Verão. Finally, it was observed that primers PK47F/R were able to check the Cabotiá seed hybrids of pumpkin Jabras.

Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus, Zucchini Yellow Mosaic Virus, Papaya Ringspot Virus Strain Watermelon, Lettuce Mosaic Virus, Jabras Hybridization

Sawazaki, H. , Yuki, V. , Ortiz, M. , Banja, W. , Marubayashi, J. , Fonseca, K. , Luchini, G. , Perroni, R. and Andrade, W. (2018) Markers for Rapid Evaluation of Virus Resistance for TYLCV in Tomato, ZYMV and PRSV-W in Zucchini and LMV in Lettuce and Hybrid Seeds in Pumpkin. American Journal of Plant Sciences, 9, 2205-2216. doi: 10.4236/ajps.2018.911159.