• Research in Plant Disease
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.358-363
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• 2011

Dapple fruits of plum cv. Oiishiwase (Prunus salicina L.) were occurred at Gyeonggi-do and Gyeongsangbukdo. The symptoms resembled the dapple fruit disease caused by Hop stunt viroid (HSVd). To identify the causal disease agents, RT-PCR was performed with the specific primers of HSVd. RT-PCR analysis showed that HSVd variants (DP1, DP2) were detected from dapple fruits. HSVd detection was also confirmed by the dot blot hybridization using a DIG-probe specific to HSVd. Nucleotide sequences of DP1 and DP2 had the identities of 94-100% with those of other 7 variants of HSVd in Genbank database. DP1 and DP2 were different in two nucleotides of CG and AA at position of 59 and 60, orderly. Based on nucleotide sequences at position of 59 and 60, HSVd variants associated with plum dapple fruits could be divided mainly into three groups as CG, AA and TG.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Plant Pathology Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.143.1-143
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• 2003

Hop stunt viroid(HSVd) is a plant pathogen which infect a number of hosts such as grapevine, Citrus and Prunus plants. Sequence variants of HSVd have been divided into three types(i. grapevine and hop, ii. citrus, iii. plum, peach, apricot and almond). Purified RNAs from plum trees were used for the synthesis of cDNA with reverse transcription and amplified by polymerase chain reaction. Cloned cDNAs were sequenced and two different consensus sequence variants were detected. A neighbor-joining analysis was carried out on the sequence variants together with 62 previously described variants of HSVd from hop, plum and other species. Sequence variants from plum trees cultivated in Korea were clustered in HSVd-plum subtype and not in HSVd-hop subtype which were two Korean isolates belongs. These relationship between sequence variants from plum and two Korean isolates in HSVd-hop type supports the other origin for hop stunt disease.

• Korean Journal Plant Pathology
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.612-613
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• 1998

The nucleotide sequence of hop stunt viroid HHSVd) Kh strain was sequenced by the reverse transcription and polymerase chain reaction. It consists of 296 nucleotides, and differs by one nucleotide deletion of cytosine at the position of 295 from the HSVd-K strain which consists of 297 nucletoides.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Plant Pathology Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.125.2-125
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• 2002