Screening of sweet potato feathery mottle virus resistant sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas L., Lam.) cultivars in Kebbi State, Nigeria

Abdulrahman Musa 1 , Musa Umar Tanimum 2 , Adamu Muhammad 3 , Abubakar Sadiq Muhammad 4 , Ibrahim Mohammed Umar 5

1   Department of Crop Science, Kebbi State University of Science and Technology, Aliero, Nigeria, P.M.B. 1144, Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi State NIGERIA
2   Department of Crop Science, Kebbi State University of Science and Technology, Aliero, Nigeria, P.M.B. 1144, Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi State NIGERIA
3   Department of Crop Science, Kebbi State University of Science and Technology, Aliero, Nigeria, P.M.B. 1144, Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi State NIGERIA
4   Department of Crop Science, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, P.M.B. 2346, Sokoto, Sokoto State, NIGERIA
5   Department of Crop Science, Kebbi State University of Science and Technology, Aliero, Nigeria, P.M.B. 1144, Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi State NIGERIA

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doi https://doi.org/10.26832/24566632.2022.070105

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Abstract

Sweet potato is a food security crop because of its ability to withstand adverse climatic conditions. This security, however, is being threaten by viral diseases and use of resistant cultivars remain the best management. This research was conducted to screen cultivars of sweet potato against sweet potato feathery mottle virus (SPFMV) infection. The treatments consisted of five cultivars coded as CV1, CV2, CV3, CV4 and CV5, respectively. The asymptomatic experimental plants were established, maintained under screen house conditions and graft-inoculated using infected vines which were tested SPFMV positive using both Double Antibody Sandwich Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (DAS-ELISA) and Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR). The experiment was laid out in Completely Randomized Design (CRD) and replicated three times. Results obtained from disease incidence and symptom severity indicated that there was significant difference (P <0.05) among cultivars in their reaction to SPFMV infection. CV2 had the highest mean disease incidence (60.67%) while, CV3 had the lowest mean disease incidence (36.67%). CV1, CV3, and CV5 have the same lowest mean symptom severity score of 2.00 while, CV2 had the highest mean severity score of 4.00. Based on the reaction of the cultivars after inoculation, it could be concluded that, all the cultivars screened were susceptible to SPFMV but CV1, CV3 and CV4 cultivars have some degree of resistance to SPFMV infection and were therefore recommended for use by the farmers in the study area. This is the first research that screened sweet potato cultivars for resistance to SPFMV in Kebbi State, Nigeria.

Keywords:

Cultivar, sweet potato, Sweet potato feathery mottle virus, disease resistance

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2022-03-25

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Musa, A., Tanimum, M. U., Muhammad, A., Muhammad, A. S., & Umar, I. M. (2022). Screening of sweet potato feathery mottle virus resistant sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas L., Lam.) cultivars in Kebbi State, Nigeria. Archives of Agriculture and Environmental Science, 7(1), 26-30. https://doi.org/10.26832/24566632.2022.070105

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