Preferred name: Carlavirus vignae
Taxonomic position: Viruses and viroids: Riboviria: Orthornavirae: Kitrinoviricota: Alsuviricetes: Tymovirales: Betaflexiviridae: Carlavirus
Other scientific names: CPMMV, Cowpea mild mottle carlavirus, Cowpea mild mottle virus
Common names in English: angular mosaic of beans, mild mottle of cowpea, pale chlorosis of tomato
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Notes on taxonomy and nomenclature EU Categorization: A1 Quarantine pest (Annex II A)
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EPPO Code: CPMMV0

Natural hosts are mainly cultivated Fabaceae, including soybean (Glycine max), common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), lima bean (P. lunatus), groundnut (Arachis hypogaea), cowpea (Vigna unguiculata), black gram (V. mungo), Bambara groundnut (V. subterranea), broad bean (Vicia faba), jack bean (Canavalia ensiformis), and winged bean (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus). CPMMV also infects, to a lesser extent, other cultivated hosts in the families Solanaceae (tomato — Solanum lycopersicum and aubergine — Solanum melongena), Caricaceae (papaya — Carica papaya), Lamiaceae (chia — Salvia hispanica), and Asparagaceae (sisal — Agave sisalana). The virus also occurs in various weeds (Fabaceae), including Stylosanthes and Tephrosia spp. Many more hosts can be artificially inoculated.

Host list: Agave sisalana, Arachis hypogaea, Arachis pintoi, Blainvillea dichotoma, Calopogonium mucunoides, Carica papaya, Centrosema pubescens, Cleome affinis, Desmodium glabrum, Desmodium tortuosum, Glycine max, Hibiscus syriacus, Indigofera hirsuta, Macroptilium atropurpureum, Macroptilium lathyroides, Macroptilium sp., Mirabilis jalapa, Mucuna pruriens, Phaseolus lunatus, Phaseolus vulgaris, Pisum sativum, Psophocarpus tetragonolobus, Rhynchosia minima, Salvia hispanica, Senna sp., Solanum lycopersicum, Solanum melongena, Stylosanthes guianensis, Tephrosia purpurea, Tephrosia villosa, Vicia faba, Vigna angularis, Vigna mungo, Vigna radiata, Vigna subterranea, Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis, Vigna unguiculata subsp. unguiculata, Vigna unguiculata

CPMMV is distributed on almost all continents, but is still absent from Europe. As CPMMV is a virus that can infect numerous host plants asymptomatically, its occurrence in different regions may be underestimated. As sequencing of virus genomes becomes more accessible, CPMMV infection has been reported more frequently.

EPPO Region: Israel, Jordan, Netherlands
Africa: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Egypt, Eswatini, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia
Asia: China (Anhui, Henan, Hubei, Jiangsu, Jilin, Shandong, Zhejiang), India (Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Haryana, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh), Indonesia (Java), Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Taiwan, Thailand, Yemen
North America: Mexico, United States of America (Florida, Oklahoma)
Central America and Caribbean: Puerto Rico
South America: Argentina, Brazil (Bahia, Distrito Federal, Goias, Maranhao, Mato Grosso, Minas Gerais, Para, Parana, Pernambuco, Sao Paulo, Tocantins), Venezuela
Oceania: Australia (Queensland), Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands

Unlike carlaviruses in general, which are transmitted by aphids, CPMMV is transmitted by the whitefly Bemisia tabaci in a non-persistent manner (Jeyanandarajah & Brunt, 1993). The ability to transmit CPMMV is usually retained for a maximum of 20-60 min (Muniyappa & Reddy, 1983; Iwaki et al., 1982). Both B. tabaci Middle East-Asia Minor 1 (MEAM1) and B. tabaci Mediterranean (MED) species transmit efficiently CPMMV isolates from Brazil (Marubayashi et al., 2010; Bello et al., 2019; Bello et al., 2021). Whitefly populations harboring the endosymbiont Hamiltonella sp. are more efficient in transmitting CPMMV to beans (Bello et al., 2019).

CPMMV is readily transmitted by mechanical inoculation. Seed transmission has been demonstrated in several hosts in different countries (Brunt & Keten, 1973; Iwaki et al., 1982; Fauquet & Thouvenel, 1987; Yadav et al., 2013), but there are also some reports of studies in which seed transmission did not occur. It seems that CPMMV seed transmission is determined by a combination of the virus isolate or strain and the host plant species (or variety). Usually, plants originating from CPMMV-infected seeds have a symptomless infection, hindering the control of the disease (Zanardo & Carvalho, 2017). Infected seeds appear to be the main source of virus inoculum in the relatively short-lived hosts of this virus in tropical countries, though weeds may also act as reservoirs.

Symptoms

Symptoms vary, depending on the hosts, the season and the virus isolate (Naidu et al., 1997). There are also several reports of symptomless infections on many crops. On Vigna unguiculata, CPMMV causes diffuse chlorotic blotches on the primary leaves, systemic mottling, and leaf distortion or malformation. However, it can also cause mild symptoms, as reported on Vigna mungo, in Tanzania (Mink & Keswani, 1987) and typical leaf crinkle symptoms (Baranwal et al., 2015). On groundnuts, it causes necrotic lesions, chlorotic rings, or line patterns followed by systemic leaf chlorosis, rolling, and veinal necrosis. CPMMV is associated with stem necrosis disease on soybeans, causing stem necrosis, dwarfing, and bud blight. Other symptoms recorded on soybeans are systemic leaf chlorosis, distortion and stunting (Laguna et al., 2006). On Phaseolus, it causes vein mosaic and general leaf chlorosis, as well as mottling and mild chlorosis, followed by apical necrosis, distortion, and stunting. The response of different soybean and common bean cultivars to infection with CPMMV can result in variable symptoms. In some cultivars, CPMMV infection does not cause necrosis or distortion and may even be asymptomatic (Silva et al., 2020; Mink & Keswani,1987). Furthermore, the variability of symptoms is also linked to different variants of CPMMV (Zanardo et al., 2014). On tomatoes, CPMMV causes mottling and inconspicuous banding of minor veins (‘fuzzy vein’) (Brunt & Phillips, 1981). On aubergine, CPMMV induces mild leaf mosaic (Mansour et al., 1998).

Morphology

CPMMV particles consist of flexuous filaments approximately 600-700 nm long and 13-15 nm wide (Brunt et al., 1983; Almeida et al., 2005). In leaf cells of the infected hosts, cytopathic effects include filamentous particles aggregates in sheets, bundles or brush-like inclusions (Brunt et al, 1983; Gaspar & Costa, 1993). CPMMV has a single-stranded positive RNA genome of about 8 200 nucleotides with a cap structure linked to the 5´end and a poly-A tail at the 3´end (Menzel et al., 2010; King et al., 2011; Zanardo et al., 2014). The genome encodes six open reading frames (ORFs) and is typical of the viruses in the Carlavirus genus (Menzel et al., 2010; Wei et al., 2021; Zanardo et al., 2014). 

Detection and inspection methods

Purified preparations of CPMMV, as well as the CPMMV coat protein expressed in Escherichia coli system, are strongly immunogenic. The virus is detectable by serological methods such as ELISA (Mansour et al., 1998; Carvalho et al., 2013; Tavasoli et al., 2009), immunosorbent electron microscopy — ISEM (Almeida et al., 2005; Antignus & Cohen, 1987), dot-immunobinding assay — DIBA (Ali, 2017; Sutrawati et al., 2021), and western blot (Carvalho et al., 2013; Wei et al., 2021) using antibodies from different sources. There are commercial kits available for the detection of CPMMV by ELISA. 

Molecular approaches using RT-PCR are widely used to detect CPMMV in diverse hosts (Brito et al., 2012; Tavasoli et al., 2009; Lamas et al., 2018; Zanardo et al., 2014; Silva et al., 2020). In addition, high throughput sequencing was also valuable in detecting CPMMV in several hosts (Alves-Freitas et al., 2019; Baranwal et al., 2015; Mumo et al., 2020; Quintanilha-Peixoto et al., 2021; Rosario, 2014; Wei et al., 2021).

Indicator plants include Arachis hypogaea, Cajanus cajan, Canavalia ensiformis, Glycine max, Vigna unguiculata, Nicotiana clevelandii (systemic mottle); Beta vulgaris, Chenopodium murale, C. quinoa (chlorotic local lesions), however, not all CPMMV isolates infect these indicator plants.

CPMMV moves via its vector Bemisia tabaci, which can spread it between fields in infected areas. It is unlikely to be carried by host plants for planting in international trade since most CPMMV hosts are field crops which are not typically moved (a possible exception is tomato, which is however, a very minor host). The virus is seed-transmitted in some host species but, apparently, not in others (Jeyanandarajah & Brunt, 1993; Silva et al., 2020; Sutrawati et al., 2021). There may be some risk of movement of the virus in B. tabaci on other host plants (e.g. ornamentals), given the fact that the vector moves readily from one host to another. However, CPMMV is not persistent in the vector.

Economic impact

CPMMV was first described as widespread in Eastern Ghana on cowpeas (Brunt & Kenten, 1973). It causes a disease in soybeans and groundnuts in Kenya (Bock et al., 1976), in soybeans in Côte d'Ivoire (Thouvenel et al., 1982), and in groundnuts in India (Iizuka et al., 1984). It occurs on soybean and groundnut in many South-East Asian countries (Iwaki et al., 1982, 1986). In South Korea, yield losses in soybean can reach 56% (Sutrisno, 2016). However, neither Demski & Kuhn (1989) nor Reddy & Rajeshwari (1984), in their accounts of the viruses of soybean and groundnut, respectively, consider CPMMV to be of any great economic importance. On the contrary, in Brazil, a recent field study with six soybean cultivars distributed in four different growing areas showed that CPMMV infection caused a 6 to 16% yield reduction depending on the cultivar (Silva et al., 2020). In Brazil, CPMMV has been recorded on Phaseolus vulgaris, on which it causes angular mosaic (Costa et al., 1983). In recent years, yield losses of about 15% to 69% have been associated with CPMMV on common beans (Souza et al., 2018; Faria et al., 2016). The CPMMV isolate reported on tomato in Israel seems to be only a curiosity, found on a few plants (Cohen & Antignus, 1982). In Nigeria, an 'extra mild' isolate of CPMMV has been recorded on soybeans (Anno Nyako, 1986).

Control

For soybean, beans, and cowpeas, healthy seeds should be used. As far as possible, situations of heavy whitefly infestation should be avoided. Reddy (1991), noting that the disease is rarely of any importance in groundnuts unless these are grown alongside susceptible crops of soybean or cowpea, suggests that this should be avoided. In Puerto Rico, a gene named Rbc1 located in chromosome 18, and associated with resistance to CPMMV, was identified in the soybean genotype IA3023 (Brace, 2012). In Indonesia, another natural source of resistance to CPMMV was identified in cultivars MLG 0120 and MLG 0278 (Suryanto et al., 2014). In India, a dominant gene conferring resistance to CPMMV was identified in the soybean cultivar DS-12-5, located on the linkage group H, in chromosome 12 (Cheruku et al., 2017). Two soybean genotypes (Daepung and Daemag-2) have been reported as a natural source of tolerance to CPMMV in South Korea (Sustrino, 2016). In Brazil, soybean and common bean cultivars with different levels of resistance or tolerance to CPMMV have been developed (Oliveira et al., 2018; Silva et al., 2022; Arias et al., 2015). On soybean, two distinct major genes have been reported conferring tolerance to CPMMV, one in the soybean cultivar BRS 133 and another in the cultivar BRSMT Pintado (Arias et al., 2015). Later, Oliveira et al. (2018) reported another dominant gene from the resistance source BRS133, mapped on chromosome 18 and named Rbc2. In addition, in Brazil, sources of natural resistance to CPMMV have been recently identified in common bean cultivars from the ‘carioca’ seed type, which were used to develop common bean lines with multiple virus resistance (CPMMV, BGMV, and BCMV) (Silva et al., 2022). 

Phytosanitary risk

CPMMV was included in EU A1 Quarantine pest (Annex II A) in 2019, it is a quarantine pest for other few European countries, but not included in the EPPO A1/A2 lists of pests recommended for regulation as quarantine pests. CPMMV economic importance is considered moderate, but it has increased in the last years in legumes in tropical areas outside Europe. CPMMV is transmitted non-persistently by B. tabaci, so there is little possibility of entry in the vector. CPMMV principally attacks tropical field crops rather than glasshouse or vegetable crops.

Because CPMMV is not transmitted persistently, the risk of introduction in the vector on other hosts is negligible. Therefore, relevant measures would be directed at the possibility of seed transmission. The use of seeds produced in areas where CPMMV is endemic should be avoided to prevent the introduction of CPMMV into new legume cultivating areas (Brown, 2020).

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This datasheet was extensively revised in 2022 by Simone da Graça Ribeiro and Patricia Valle-Pinheiro. Their valuable contribution is gratefully acknowledged.

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