| Title | Infectious RNA viruses in the edible mushroom pleurotus spp |
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| Author | Park, Jeong Soo · Kim, Young Ho * |
| Address | Laboratory of Microbiology, Department of Biology, College of Natural Sciences, The University of Suwon; * Department of Niology, College of Natural Sciences, The University of Suwon |
| Bibliography | Journal of Microbiology, 34(1),61-67, 1996, |
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| Key Words | Pleurotus florida, Pleurotus ostreatus, bacilli-form virus, oyster mushroom |
| Abstract | Double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) viruses and single-stranded RNA(ssRNA) viruses were detected in a strain of Pleurotus mushroom cultivated in a farm. Those fungal viruses were purified in the pH 6.0 or pH 7.2 using CsCI or Cs₂SO₄buoyant density centrifugation. Each viral particles were not completely separated at any trials. However, mushroom bacili-form virus contains a single major nucleic acid with 0.7 Kb ssRNA, which might code for 20 Kd viral capsid protein. The dsRNAs are encapsidatred into spherical-form viruses, whereas ssRNA viral genomes are encapsidated into two different sizes of bacili-form particles. A healthy-looking mushroom also contained some spherical-form viruses with dsRNAs. Laboratory strains of Pleurotus ostreatus and a cultivated strain of P. sajor-caju did not show any viral particles. Mushrooms with specific disease symptoms. however, contained at least four different sizes of spherical-form viruses. Thus, we concluded that a bacilli-form virus case a severe disease symptoms of abnormal on mushroom development. |
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