title: Biolistic-mediated inoculation of immature wheat embryos with Barley yellow dwarf virus-PAV.
abstract: Successful mechanical inoculation of plant with viruses requires an efficient method to introduce the viral pathogen into the appropriate cells of the plant. Barley yellow dwarf virus-PAV (BYDV-PAV, Luteovirus), transmitted naturally by aphids, must be inoculated into the phloem tissue to infect systemically inoculated hosts. The particle bombardment method used widely for nucleic acid transfer into plant tissues was adapted to inoculate immature embryos of winter and spring wheat cultivars with either BYDV-PAV particles or viral full-length RNAs. DAS-ELISA and RT-PCR were carried out on extracts of developed leaves at 7 weeks post-bombardment and revealed that up to 14% of bombarded embryos produced BYDV-infected wheat plants. This is the first report of an aphid-free inoculation method for BYDV.
authors.affiliation: INRA/ENSA, Unité Mixte de Recherche Biologie des Organismes et des Populations appliquée à la Protection des Plantes (BiO3P), BP 35327, F-35653 Cedex, Le Rheu, France.
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Helloco-Kervarrec
authors.forename: Gérard
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Riault
authors.forename: Emmanuel
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Jacquot
mesh_terms: D019470:Biolistics / Q000379:methods*; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay / Q000379:methods; D017793:Luteovirus / Q000235:genetics; D012367:RNA, Viral; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D014908:Triticum / Q000196:embryology / Q000821:virology*
chemical_list: D012367:RNA, Viral