Lettuce Necrotic Yellows Cytorhabdovirus
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''Lettuce necrotic yellows cytorhabdovirus'' (LNYV) is a
plant Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclud ...
virus A virus is a submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism. Viruses infect all life forms, from animals and plants to microorganisms, including bacteria and archaea. Since Dmitri Ivanovsky's 1 ...
belonging to the
virus A virus is a submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism. Viruses infect all life forms, from animals and plants to microorganisms, including bacteria and archaea. Since Dmitri Ivanovsky's 1 ...
order ''
Mononegavirales ''Mononegavirales'' is an order of negative-strand RNA viruses which have nonsegmented genomes. Some common members of the order are Ebola virus, human respiratory syncytial virus, measles virus, mumps virus, Nipah virus, and rabies virus. All of ...
'', family ''
Rhabdoviridae ''Rhabdoviridae'' is a family of negative-strand RNA viruses in the order ''Mononegavirales''. Vertebrates (including mammals and humans), invertebrates, plants, fungi and protozoans serve as natural hosts. Diseases associated with member viru ...
'' and genus ''
Cytorhabdovirus ''Cytorhabdovirus'' is a genus of viruses in the family ''Rhabdoviridae'', order ''Mononegavirales''. Plants serve as natural hosts. Structure Cytorhabdovirions are enveloped, with bullet shaped and bacilliform geometries. These virions are ab ...
''. It was first identified in Australia in the plant species ''
Lactuca sativa Lettuce (''Lactuca sativa'') is an annual plant of the family Asteraceae. It is most often grown as a leaf vegetable, but sometimes for its stem and seeds. Lettuce is most often used for salads, although it is also seen in other kinds of food, ...
'' in 1963 by Stubbs et al. Since then it has been identified in many other
plant Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclud ...
species including ''
Datura stramonium ''Datura stramonium'', known by the common names thorn apple, jimsonweed (jimson weed), devil's snare, or devil's trumpet, is a poisonous flowering plant of the nightshade family Solanaceae. It is a species belonging to the ''Datura'' genus a ...
'' and '' Nicotiana glutinosa''. The
virus A virus is a submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism. Viruses infect all life forms, from animals and plants to microorganisms, including bacteria and archaea. Since Dmitri Ivanovsky's 1 ...
is transmitted by the insect
vector Vector most often refers to: *Euclidean vector, a quantity with a magnitude and a direction *Vector (epidemiology), an agent that carries and transmits an infectious pathogen into another living organism Vector may also refer to: Mathematic ...
'' Hyperomyzus lactucae'' the
insect Insects (from Latin ') are pancrustacean hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta. They are the largest group within the arthropod phylum. Insects have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body ( head, thorax and abdomen), three pairs ...
can become infected by feeding on an infected plant. It then acts as a reservoir for the
virus A virus is a submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism. Viruses infect all life forms, from animals and plants to microorganisms, including bacteria and archaea. Since Dmitri Ivanovsky's 1 ...
in which it can multiply. The virus is also transmitted congenitally to its progeny


References

Stubbs, L.L. and Grogan, R.G. (1963). Aust. J. agric. Res. 14: 439.


External links


ICTVdB - The Universal Virus Database: Lettuce necrotic yellows virus
Cytorhabdoviruses Viral plant pathogens and diseases Lettuce diseases {{Virus-plant-disease-stub