Claim · model-written summary
Tobacco mild green mosaic virus is maintained at high prevalence in N. glauca populations sharing the space with pepper crops in South eastern Spain.
- Taxon
- N. glauca
Nicotiana glaucae0
- Interactor
- TMGMVe0pathogen
- Outcome
- high prevalencee0
- Setting
- South eastern Spaine0
Verbatim
e0“TMGMV is maintained at high prevalence in N. glauca populations that share the space with pepper crops in South eastern Spain”
Title
Rafael de Andrés-Torán; Aurora Fraile; Sayanta Bera; et al. Virus Evolution 2025. doi:10.1093/ve/veaf044
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Mechanism The high prevalence may be explained by low virulence, with TMGMV behaving as a conditional mutualist in Nicotiana glauca.
- Observation Infected plants showed increased survival under drought conditions, which in part explains the low virulence.
- Observation TMGMV genotypes with a within-host fitness advantage in pepper and a disadvantage in N. glauca are maintained in N. glauca populations.
- Mechanism Pleiotropic effects of host range mutations are said to explain higher vertical transmission through N. glauca seeds of isolates adapted to pepper.
- Mechanism High migration from N. glauca prevents fixation of pepper-adapted genotypes in pepper populations.