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Surveillance and distribution of the emergent Sri Lankan cassava mosaic virus in China

Abstract

Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) is a major staple food crop for more than a billion people in the world. Cassava mosaic virus (CMV), belonging to the Geminiviridae family, is a primary threat to cassava production. Sri Lankan cassava mosaic virus (SLCMV) is the only emergent CMV prevalent in South Asia and Southeast Asia since its identification in 2002. We reported the identification of two invasive strains of SLCMV, Col and HN7, in China in 2018. However, the occurrence and distribution of these known SLCMV strains and the presence of unknown geminivirus in China are still elusive. In this study, we firstly reported an improved CMV detection system based on molecular and serological methods, which was further used to determine the distribution of CMV in major cassava plantations in China. Two optimized PCR primer pairs based on the conserved regions of AV1 and AC1 genes were designed to detect different CMV species and distinguish SLCMV simultaneously. For a serological method, a polyclonal antibody against SLCMV AV1-encoded capsid protein was raised and used for enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Consistent detection results were achieved by PCR- and ELISA-based methods. Among 62 examined samples collected in 2018, 10 were SLCMV positive, with 4 coinfection cases of two strains (HN7 and Col) in the same cassava plant. Two primer pairs could also be used to detect the presence of CMV in whitefly (Bemisia tabaci) sensitively. All positive samples were from Fujian and Hainan Provinces, indicating a limited distribution of SLCMV in cassava plants in China. Our detection methods could be used for future surveillance system to control and manage cassava mosaic disease in China and other countries.

Background

Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz), originally from South America, was introduced into Africa in the sixteenth century (Legg et al. 2015). Since the early twentieth century, cassava has been grown on the African continent due to its ability to withstand difficult growing conditions and its high yield capacity. At present, it is one of the most important staple crops for more than a billion people and is well recognized as a twenty-first century crop for smallholder farmers in developing countries (Chetty et al. 2013). Cassava is also planted for the production of industrial products, like ethanol and starch, in One Belt and One Road countries such as Vietnam, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka (Sarker et al. 2018). According to customs statistics, China imported more than 920 million tons of dry cassava in 2015, mainly from Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia, and some African countries. It is estimated that total imports of cassava in China and neighboring countries along the border are close to 9 million tons, but there has not been any inspection and quarantine of possible pathogens and pests during the importation of cassava products.

Cassava mosaic disease (CMD), caused by Cassava mosaic virus (CMV), represents the biggest constraint on cassava production in Africa for decades, and now has reached many countries in Asia (Seif 1982; Otim-Nape et al. 1997; Wang et al. 2016; Wang et al. 2019a; Chi et al. 2020; Wang et al. 2020). Until now, two species of CMVs have been identified in Asia, i.e., Indian cassava mosaic virus (ICMV) and Sri Lankan cassava mosaic virus (SLCMV) (Saunders et al. 2002; Gao et al. 2010; Wang et al. 2014). SLCMV is now prevalent in Asian countries such as Cambodia, Vietnam, and China, mainly due to the lack of a rapid detection method and virus diagnostic capacity (Uke et al. 2018; Minato et al. 2019; Wang et al. 2019a; Wang et al. 2020). We reported two strains of SLCMV (HN7 and Col) with different virulence in China and explored their pathogenic mechanism (Wang et al. 2020). Understanding the distribution of these two strains and other potential CMVs is essential to prevent a CMD epidemic in China. One problem of CMD prevention is an abundance of whitefly (Bemisia tabaci), a very tiny insect vector of virus transmission that becomes more prevalent during epidemics due to the begomovirus–whitefly mutualism (Colvin et al. 2006; Li et al. 2014; Luan et al. 2014; Zhao et al. 2019).

Detection methods are the first set of tools used to find incursions of quarantine pathogens and are crucial to implement control and eradication of exotic plant disease. There are two common detection methods for plant pathogens, molecular-based and serological-based. Currently, the most common method of CMV detection is to detect viral genomic DNA by PCR or next-generation sequencing. Multiplex PCR, which uses several primer pairs targeting different CMV species, is widely used to simultaneously detect various virus species in Africa (Alabi et al. 2008; Aloyce et al. 2013; Mulenga et al. 2016; Otti et al. 2016). However, the PCR-based method sometimes produces false negative or false positive results due to the unspecific amplification with non-optimized PCR primer pairs (Wang et al. 2016; Wang et al. 2019a). The cost of next-generation sequencing is too high, and it is time-consuming when applied to large-scale sample screening. In Asia, geminivirus degenerate primers or specific primers for SLCMV and ICMV are generally used (Duraisamy et al. 2012; Minato et al. 2019), but we and other groups found that the universal geminivirus primer pair (PA/PB) failed to detect SLCMV (Wang et al. 2016; Wang et al. 2019a). A second tool for pathogen detection is based on recognition of viral proteins. Serological methods have been developed to detect viruses in cassava samples using antibodies against viral particles for African cassava mosaic virus (ACMV) (Givord et al. 1994). The antibody against a certain species of CMV cannot be used to detect other species. Detection of SLCMV by serological identification has been rarely reported. The recent rapid expansion of SLCMV in East Asia and Southeast Asia requires suitable diagnostic technologies (Saunders et al. 2002; Chi et al. 2020). For this reason, there is an urgent need to develop an optimized tool to monitor SLCMV.

SLCMV is a bipartite Begomovirus containing two single-stranded circular genomic DNAs. The DNA-A component encodes six proteins: AV1 and AV2 are encoded in virus-sense strands, and the other four proteins, AC1, AC2, AC3, and AC4, are encoded in complementary-sense strands. All of the proteins play important roles in virus survival and host invasion (Fondong 2013). AV1 protein (capsid protein, CP) is the only structural protein and is essential for whitefly transmission among plants (Azzam et al. 1994; Höfer et al. 1997; Hohnle et al. 2001). The viral CP is usually used as an antigen to generate antibodies to detect virus (Hema et al. 2003; Zhang et al. 2018). AC1 is the only essential protein for viral replication in planta (Ruhel and Chakraborty 2019). It has been implicated in the binding of species-specific iteron DNA sequences in the virus common region, illustrating that AC1 is a conserved protein and also a good species-specific target for distinguishing certain species among multiple CMVs (Fondong 2013).

Here, we developed an efficient detection system for SLCMV for the first time. A total of 62 cassava samples collected from major plantations in China in 2018 were further analyzed with this system. Ten of them from Hainan and Fujian Provinces were found to be infected with at least one strain of SLCMV, and coinfection with two SLCMV strains was also observed in a single cassava plant sample. Our molecular and serological methods are useful for surveillance of SLCMV in China and other countries.

Results

Design of specific primers for detection of CMV species

To design primer pairs for species-specific detection of CMVs, we analyzed the protein-encoded genes in the DNA-A strands of different CMV species. As AV1 genes of various CMV species have higher similarity and AC1 genes have more specificity, we designed UPA/UPB to detect different CMV species and SPA/SPB to specifically detect SLCMV (Additional file 1: Figure S1). Then we evaluated the specificity of these two primer pairs to different CMV species. We extracted total DNA from plants infected by SLCMV-HN7 (MH891840.1), SLCMV-Col (AJ314737.1), ICMV-SG (JX518289.1), and ACMV-NO (AJ427910.1). All DNA samples were adjusted to a concentration of 200 ng/μL and used as templates to conduct PCR assays. The products were analyzed by agarose gel electrophoresis. As the result showed, the primer pair UPA/UPB could amplify products about 700 bp from all CMV-infected samples (Fig. 1a), and SPA/SPB could amplify products approximately 1000 bp only in SLCMV-HN7- and SLCMV-Col-infected samples (Fig. 1b). This illustrates that the primer pair UPA/UPB could detect different CMV species, whereas SPA/SPB could detect SLCMV specifically.

Fig. 1
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Optimization of PCR to detect Cassava mosaic virus (CMV) from plants and Q-biotype Bemisia tabaci (Mediterranean, MED). Agarose gel electrophoresis analyzed PCR products amplified from multiple CMVs including Sri Lankan cassava mosaic virus (SLCMV), Indian cassava mosaic virus (ICMV), and African cassava mosaic virus (ACMV) with primer pairs UPA/UPB (a) and SPA/SPB (b). C–, healthy plant. c DNA gel electrophoresis of PCR products amplified from SLCMV-Col viruliferous Bemisia tabaci with primer pairs UPA/UPB and SPA/SPB. Bt–, non-viruliferous Bemisia tabaci; Bt+, SLCMV-Col viruliferous Bemisia tabaci; C+, positive control of SLCMV-Col infected plants; M, DNA marker (2000 bp)

As the virus-transmitting insect vector is another important factor for plant virus epidemics, it is necessary to develop an efficient and reliable approach to detect it. For this purpose, we tested the specificity of the two primer pairs for CMV detection in its vector, whitefly (B. tabaci). We detected the Q-biotype whitefly (Mediterranean, MED) which fed on SLCMV-Col-infected Nicotiana tabacum for 10 days, and whitefly fed on healthy N. tabacum was used as negative control. As Fig. 1c shows, the two primer pairs could amplify corresponding products in whiteflies carrying SLCMV-Col, whereas no amplified products were observed with the negative control samples (Fig. 1c). This result indicates that the primer pairs UPA/UPB and SPA/SPB could be used to detect SLCMV in whitefly.

Detection of CMV from cassava samples by PCR

As our optimized PCR condition worked very well, we next conducted a field survey on various cassava samples collected from several plantations in China in 2018. A total of 62 cassava samples were collected from five provinces: Guangdong (GD), Guizhou (GZ), Hainan (HN), Guangxi (GX), and Fujian (FJ). PCR analysis showed that 7 out of 32 samples in Hainan Province and 3 out of 11 samples in Fujian Province were infected by SLCMV (Fig. 2a, b). DNA sequencing results demonstrated that 5 positive samples in Hainan were infected by SLCMV-HN7 strain and 1 positive sample in Fujian was infected by SLCMV-Col strain. The remaining samples (HN10, HN24, FJ2, FJ4) were co-infected with SLCMV-HN7 and SLCMV-Col, as the sequencing results showed double peaks at several sites with sequence characteristics of both strains (Fig. 2c and Table 1). Our results suggest that two reported strains of SLCMV (Col and HN7) were the major agents causing CMD in China in 2018. Only samples from two provinces, Hainan and Fujian, were PCR positive. Coinfection with two SLCMV strains could be observed in some cassava plants.

Fig. 2
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PCR detection of CMV from cassava plantations in China. DNA gel electrophoresis of PCR amplification from cassava samples collected from different provinces in China using primer pairs of UPA/UPB (a) and SPA/SPB (b). GD, Guangdong Province; GZ, Guizhou Province; HN, Hainan Province; GX, Guangxi Province; FJ, Fujian Province; C–, healthy cassava; C+, SLCMV-Col-infected cassava; M, DNA marker (2000 bp). c DNA sequencing chromatogram of PCR product for a single cassava sample (HN10, HN24, FJ2, or FJ4). A few double peaks in the chromatogram (marked by red arrows in AC1 gene) indicate co-infection of SLCMV-Col and SLCMV-HN7 in a single sample. Alignment of SLCMV-HN7 and SLCMV-Col AC1 nucleotide acid sequence shown in bottom panel

Table 1 Number of different SLCMV strains-infected cassavas

Generation of SLCMV CP polyclonal antibody

During field survey and virus detection, we encountered instability, false positive, and false negative results with the single PCR method. To further improve the accuracy of SLCMV detection, we sought to combine the additional serological method with the PCR method. To our knowledge, there is no available commercial antibody for SLCMV detection, so we prepared the antibody against SLCMV CP for detection in cassava samples. We generated the recombinant CP, which is encoded by the AV1 gene of SLCMV-HN7 strain, in Escherichia coli cells. The result of SDS-PAGE showed that 30 kDa recombinant CP was obtained in the supernatant (Fig. 3a). Then we collected the purified recombinant CP to generate rabbit polyclonal antibody.

Fig. 3
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Protein purification of SLCMV capsid protein (CP) and identification of specificity of CP polyclonal antibody. a Prokaryotic expression and purification of SLCMV-HN7 His-CP recombinant proteins in E. coli. 1: Before induction of CP; 2: supernatant of induced CP with sonication; 3: precipitation of induced CP with sonication; 4: elution of fusion protein. The specificity of CP polyclonal antibody was evaluated by Western blot (b) and ELISA (c). C–, healthy cassava. Values are mean ± SD (n = 3). (Student’s t-test; ** P < 0.01)

To determine the specificity of the SLCMV CP antibody, we conducted Western blot to analyze plants infected by SLCMV-HN7, SLCMV-Col, ICMV-SG, and ACMV-NO. As shown in Fig. 3b, two visible bands were observed on Western blot for SLCMV-HN7- and SLCMV-Col-infected plant samples, whereas no band could be observed for healthy, ICMV-SG- and ACMV-NO-infected plant samples (Fig. 3b). We further performed ELISA to detect the samples infected by SLCMV-HN7, SLCMV-Col, ICMV-SG, and ACMV-NO and obtained the same results (Fig. 3c). This indicates that the SLCMV-HN7 CP antibody is specific to SLCMV, but not to the other two CMV species.

Detection of SLCMV in cassava by ELISA

Subsequently, we used SLCMV CP antibody to detect SLCMV in cassava cultivated in different provinces in China. To verify the PCR results, we carried out ELISA for detection in 14 cassava samples from Hainan and Fujian Provinces (Fig. 4). The results showed that SLCMV-positive samples detected by PCR were also positive by ELISA, which indicates that the combination of PCR and serological methods can provide a more precise detection system for SLCMV detection and surveillance.

Fig. 4
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Cassava samples collected from Hainan and Fujian Provinces in China were analyzed by ELISA using SLCMV CP polyclonal antibody. C–, healthy cassava sample; C+, SLCMV-Col-infected cassava sample. Values are mean ± SD (n = 3). (Student’s t-test; ** P < 0.01)

Discussion

In this report, we designed and optimized two primer pairs for the detection of CMV with the PCR method. Then, we established the ELISA method to validate the PCR results. Combined with these two methods, we detected the distribution of CMV in China in 2018. It was demonstrated that there were limited SLCMV invasions of cassava plantations in two provinces, Fujian and Hainan. Our study provides an alternative choice for further development of commercial detection kits suitable for rapid detection of CMV in cassava plantations and customs quarantine.

There are many methods of CMV detection in cassava plantations in Africa, where various CMV species prevail (Appiah et al. 2012; Bulubulu et al. 2015; Mulenga et al. 2016; Uke et al. 2019). Molecular and serological identification techniques gradually came to be used to detect CMV. In Africa, these two techniques are widely applied, especially serological detection, and different kinds of antibodies are prepared for CMV detection by different kinds of ELISA-based methods (Appiah et al. 2012; Bulubulu et al. 2015). In Asia, CMV detection is mostly based on PCR. A few SLCMV AC1 primer pairs were reported (Duraisamy et al. 2012; Minato et al. 2019). In this study, two primer pairs were designed not only to verify the presence of CMV species (primer pair UPA/UPB based on CMV AV1 gene) but also to distinguish SLCMV specifically (primer pair SPA/SPB based on SLCMV AC1 gene). Duraisamy et al. (2012) detected SLCMV and ICMV with specific primer pairs from AC1 genes, illustrating that the AC1 gene is species-specific and thus a good target for primer design to detect CMV species.

We prepared a polyclonal antibody against SLCMV CP and confirmed that it can be used for specific detection of SLCMV in Asia. Taking into account the specificity and sensitivity of the antibody in our study, it has potential for developing rapid and reliable commercial kits for SLCMV detection in Asia by further optimizing the currently established method. Moreover, we conducted a field survey with our optimized method and found that coinfection with two SLCMV strains existed in cassava plants in China in 2018 (Table 1). Geminivirus coinfection is frequent in the field, such as mixed infections of two West African tomato-infecting begomoviruses and two strains of Sida golden mosaic virus in Sida jamaicensis plants (Leke and Kvarnheden 2014; Stewart et al. 2014). It was reported that coinfection of plants with multiple plant pathogens resulted in the highest disease prevalence (Susi et al. 2015), as it can increase the chance of virus recombination and evolution. It will be interesting to define the biological significance of coinfection of SLCMV strains in future research.

In Southeast Asia, CMV-derived diseases were reported in two Euphorbiaceae plants, Jatropha curcas and cassava (Wang et al. 2014; Wang et al. 2016). Invasions of SLCMV-HN7 and SLCMV-Col have occurred in China since 2018 (Wang et al. 2020). SLCMV is transmitted via both whitefly and stem cutting. The latter is thought to be responsible for CMD epidemics in Southeast Asia and East Asia in the past 5 years. Previous study revealed that yield loss was greater in cassava plants grown from ACMV-infected stems (55–77%) than in plants infested by viruliferous whitefly (35–60%) (Fauquet and Fargette 1990). This indicates that stem cutting is a major form of virus transmission. In this respect, monitoring CMV in cassava plants is necessary to inhibit CMD because cassava is vegetatively propagated through stem cuttings (Legg et al. 2015). Meanwhile, the mutualistic relationship between the insect vector whitefly and some begomoviruses (Li et al. 2014; Wang et al. 2019b; Zhao et al. 2019) poses a great threat in terms of future CMD epidemics in Asia and other continents. The successful detection of SLCMV in viruliferous whitefly provides another way for virus detection. Our system could be used in importing quarantine not only in China, but also in other countries in Asia. Our combined detection method would be significant for CMD controlling in Asia.

Conclusions

In this study, we developed an improved CMV detection system. With this method, limited distribution and coinfection of SLCMV strains in cassava were observed. Moreover, we developed a serological method for ELISA detection. Our optimized detection system paves the way for future SLCMV surveillance in China and other countries.

Methods

DNA extraction and PCR detection

Total DNA of cassava leaf from different plantations was extracted by the CTAB method, then used as template for PCR amplification. Total DNA of whitefly was extracted as described previously (Chi et al. 2020). Universal primer pair UPA/UPB was designed according to the conserved sequence of CMV AV1 gene, and SLCMV-specific primer pair SPA/SPB was designed according to the conserved sequence of SLCMV AC1 gene (Additional file 2: Table S1). PCR was conducted on the CFX 96 system (Bio-Rad) using Thunderbird SYBR qPCR mix as described previously (TOYOBO, QPS-201) (Li et al. 2014; Ye et al. 2015).

Generation of CMV-infected plants and acquisition of SLCMV by whitefly

N. tabacum was infiltrated with Agrobacterium transformed with infectious clones of SLCMV-Col and SLCMV-HN7 as previously described to produce SLCMV-Col- and SLCMV-HN7-infected N. tabacum (Wang et al. 2020). Whiteflies were kept on SLCMV-Col-infected N. tabacum for 10 days to obtain SLCMV, and whiteflies kept on healthy N. tabacum served as negative control. ACMV-NO-infected cassava was provided by Prof. Peng Zhang (Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences). ICMV-SG-infected N. tabacum was obtained by Agrobacterium infiltration using the infectious clone of ICMV-SG retained in our laboratory.

Expression and purification of viral CP

Based on the nucleotide sequence of the SLCMV DNA-A component isolated in China, primer pair AV1-Nde1-F/AV1-Xhol-R was designed for the AV1 gene clone (Additional file 2: Table S1). PCR products were cloned into His-tagged prokaryotic expression vector pET-28a with the same restriction sites by the one-step clone method following the manufacturer’s protocol (Vazyme, C112–02-AB), and the vector pET-28a-CP was verified by DNA sequencing.

For CP protein expression and purification, the pET-28a-CP vector was transformed into E. coli BL21 cells, then cultivated in Luria–Bertani (LB) medium with 100 μg/mL kanamycin at 37 °C. Before induction, 100 μL of cell suspension was extracted to detect total protein. After 12 h of induction by isopropylthio-β-D-thiogalactoside (IPTG, final concentration of 0.15 mM), the bacteria were collected and resuspended in T buffer containing 20 mM Tris-HCl (pH 8.0), 500 mM NaCl, 10% glycerol, 0.1% Triton X-100, and 1 mM PMSF, then lysed by sonication on ice. After centrifugation at 12,000×g for 30 min at 4 °C, the supernatant was collected and recombinant proteins were purified using a Ni-NTA agarose affinity column (Bio-Rad). After washing with an increasing concentration gradient of imidazole (20, 60, 100, 200, 300, and 400 mM), proteins eluted in T buffer containing 200 mM imidazole were collected, then concentrated with Amicon-Ultra-10 filters (Millipore). The purified recombinant CP protein was used to generate rabbit polyclonal antibody.

Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)

For detection of cassava samples by ELISA, 0.1 g cassava samples collected from Hainan and Fujian Provinces were ground into powder, then diluted using 500 μL of antigen-coating solution (1.59 g of NaCO3, 2.93 g of NaHCO3, add water to 1 L, pH = 9.6). After mixing, 100 μL was drawn into a 96-well plate for antigen immobilization at 4 °C overnight. Next, the plate was washed 3 times using PBST buffer (8.0 g of NaCl, 2.9 g of Na2HPO4·12H2O, 0.2 g KH2PO4, 0.2 g of KCl, 0.5 mL of Tween-20, add water to 1 L). Then, 100 μL of blocking buffer (5% dried skimmed milk in PBST buffer) was added to cover all unsaturated surface-binding sites of the wells at 37 °C for 2 h. The plate was washed 3 times using PBST buffer, then incubated with CP antibody, which was diluted in PBST buffer at 1:5000 for 2 h. The plate was washed 3 times using PBST buffer and anti-rabbit antibody (A2556, SIGMA) was added and incubated for 2 h. Then the plate was washed 3 times using PBST buffer and 100 μL substrate buffer (10 mL diethanolamine added to 90 mL of water, pH = 9.8, then disodium 4-nitrophenylphosphate added to a final concentration of 1 mg/mL) was added to react. After 15 min, the reaction signal was obtained by the scanner (Tecan IF M200 Pro) at OD450.

Availability of data and materials

The datasets used and/or analyzed in the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

Abbreviations

ACMV:

African cassava mosaic virus

CMD:

Cassava mosaic disease

CMV:

Cassava mosaic virus

CP:

Capsid protein

ELISA:

Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay

ICMV:

Indian cassava mosaic virus

SLCMV:

Sri Lankan cassava mosaic virus

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank Prof. Peng Zhang (Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences) for providing ACMV-NO-infected cassava plants.

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This work was supported by the National Science Foundation of China (31830073, 31672001 and 31901853), and National key research and development program (2018YFD0201503).

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DW, XZ and JY conceived and designed the experiments; DW performed the experiments; DW and XZ analyzed the data; GH, TS and GW provided cassava samples which were collected from different provinces in China; DW and XZ wrote the paper; JY and RF edited the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Additional file 1: Figure S1.

Schematic diagram of specific primer design for CMVs UPA/UPB (a) and SLCMV SPA/SPB (b).

Additional file 2: Table S1.

Primers used in this study.

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Wang, D., Huang, G., Shi, T. et al. Surveillance and distribution of the emergent Sri Lankan cassava mosaic virus in China. Phytopathol Res 2, 18 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s42483-020-00063-w

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