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Susceptibility of common weeds and cultivated crops in major maize growing agroecological zones of Uganda to viruses causing maize lethal necrosis disease

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  • 1. National Agricultural Research Organization – Bulindi Zonal Agricultural Research and Development Institute. P.O. Box 101,Hoima, Uganda. E-mail: bmudde2008@gmail.com
  • 2. Department of Plant Science and Crop Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, College of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences,University of Nairobi. P.O. Box 29053, Nairobi, Kenya. Email: dwmiano@gmail.com
  • 3. Department of Plant Science and Crop Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, College of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences,University of Nairobi. P.O. Box 29053, Nairobi, Kenya. Email: fmmogi@gmail.com
  • 4. National Crops Resources Research Institute, Namulonge. P.O. Box 7084, Kampala, Uganda. Email: grasea9@gmail.com
  • 5. Department of Plant Science and Crop Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, College of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences,University of Nairobi. P.O. Box 29053, Nairobi, Kenya. Email: ngachalor@gmail.com
  • 6. National Crops Resources Research Institute, Namulonge. P.O. Box 7084, Kampala, Uganda. Email: kdbomet@gmail.com
  • 7. National Agricultural Research Laboratories, Kawanda. P.O. Box 7065, Kampala, Uganda. Email: adrikoj@yahoo.com
  • 8. National Agricultural Research Organization – Bulindi Zonal Agricultural Research and Development Institute. P.O. Box 101,Hoima, Uganda. Email: fssekiwoko@gmail.com
  • 9. International Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), P.O. Box 6247, Kampala, Uganda. Email: allanmale@yahoo.com
  • 10. National Agricultural Research Laboratories, Kawanda. P.O. Box 7065, Kampala, Uganda. Email: akiggundu@gmail.com

Description

Maize lethal necrosis (MLN) disease is caused when maize plants become coinfected with Maize chlorotic mottle virus (MCMV) and potyviruses notably Sugarcane Mosaic Virus (SCMV). Apart from maize, little is known about susceptibility of weed species and cultivated crop species usually growing in proximity with maize to MLN viruses in Uganda. The common weeds and crop plants were mechanically inoculated with combined sap from MCMV and SCMV infected maize plants. Samples were tested for MLN causing viruses by Double Antibody Sandwich Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (DAS-ELISA) and Reverse Transcriptase-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR). The weeds that were susceptibility to MCMV were Digitaria abyssinica, Eleusine africana and Roetboellia cochinchinensis; while those susceptible to SCMV were Pennisetum purpureum, Panicum maximum and Roetboellia cochinchinensis. The cultivated crops were susceptible only to MCMV and included cassava (Manihot esculenta), groundnut (Arachis hypogaea) and bean (Phaseolus vulgaris). Common weeds and cultivated crops growing close to maize in Uganda have differential  susceptibility to MLN causing viruses and can act as reservoirs of MLN causing viruses. It is critical to identify non MLN hosts in cultivated crops for crop rotation and early weeding to reduce on MLN virus inoculum in cropping systems.

 

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