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- Title
A Novel Tiled Amplicon Sequencing Assay Targeting the Tomato Brown Rugose Fruit Virus (ToBRFV) Genome Reveals Widespread Distribution in Municipal Wastewater Treatment Systems in the Province of Ontario, Canada.
- Authors
Nash, Delaney; Ellmen, Isaac; Knapp, Jennifer J.; Menon, Ria; Overton, Alyssa K.; Cheng, Jiujun; Lynch, Michael D. J.; Nissimov, Jozef I.; Charles, Trevor C.
- Abstract
Tomato Brown Rugose Fruit Virus (ToBRFV) is a plant pathogen that infects important Solanaceae crop species and can dramatically reduce tomato crop yields. The ToBRFV has rapidly spread around the globe due to its ability to escape detection by antiviral host genes which confer resistance to other tobamoviruses in tomato plants. The development of robust and reproducible methods for detecting viruses in the environment aids in the tracking and reduction of pathogen transmission. We detected ToBRFV in municipal wastewater influent (WWI) samples, likely due to its presence in human waste, demonstrating a widespread distribution of ToBRFV in WWI throughout Ontario, Canada. To aid in global ToBRFV surveillance efforts, we developed a tiled amplicon approach to sequence and track the evolution of ToBRFV genomes in municipal WWI. Our assay recovers 95.7% of the 6393 bp ToBRFV RefSeq genome, omitting the terminal 5′ and 3′ ends. We demonstrate that our sequencing assay is a robust, sensitive, and highly specific method for recovering ToBRFV genomes. Our ToBRFV assay was developed using existing ARTIC Network resources, including primer design, sequencing library prep, and read analysis. Additionally, we adapted our lineage abundance estimation tool, Alcov, to estimate the abundance of ToBRFV clades in samples.
- Subjects
ONTARIO; CANADA; WASTEWATER treatment; TOMATOES; FRUIT; PHYTOPATHOGENIC microorganisms; CROP yields; GENOMES
- Publication
Viruses (1999-4915), 2024, Vol 16, Issue 3, p460
- ISSN
1999-4915
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/v16030460