Papaya is an economically important tropical fruit. Papaya ringspot virus (PRSV) is an important virus disease of papaya, often causing significant yield losses and quality deterioration. Since the introduction of the first transgenic papaya in 1998, PDR-based breeding strategies for disease resistance have been successfully applied. The contradiction between disease resistance based on sequence homology and increased virus genetic diversity became a new challenge for papaya breeding. In this study, we propose to use RNAi strategies aim at nuclear inclusion b gene (Nib) to obtain broad-spectrum resistance to PRSV papaya. With optimized embryo callus generation-Agrobatium meidated transformation-shoot regeneration, 52 shoots were obtained after resistance screening and a total of 24 transgenic positive shoots were obtained by specific PCR screening for the T0 generation. In the T0 generation field natural disease test, the transgenic papaya strains were significantly more resistant to disease than the non-transgenic control, with NibB5-2 having the best resistance in the field. Molecular charaterization of the insertion site of Nib5-2 was located at position 1976766 on chromosome 2 supercontig_30 by hiTAIL-PCR method. Green house inoculation test of NibB5-2 T1 generation, there was no virus accumulation and no disease symptoms, confirmed the resistance. Our resulst reveal that RNAi silcencing the Nib gene enhance the papaya virus resistance, meanwhile enriched the candidated genes for virus resistance breeding.
| 科 Family | 属数 Number of genus | 种数 Number of species | 占总种数比例 Percentage of total species (%) | 属 Genus | 种数 Number of species | 占总种数比例 Percentage of total species (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 鹅膏菌科Amanitaceae | 2 | 11 | 5.26 | 鹅膏菌属 Amanita | 10 | 4.78 |
| 小菇科 Mycenaceae | 2 | 12 | 5.74 | 丝盖伞属 Inocybe | 5 | 2.39 |
| 多孔菌科 Polyporaceae | 8 | 14 | 6.70 | 蜡蘑属 Laccaria | 5 | 2.39 |
| 红菇科 Russulaceae | 3 | 23 | 11.00 | 小皮伞属 Marasmius | 6 | 2.87 |
| 小菇属 Mycena | 11 | 5.26 | ||||
| 光柄菇属 Pluteus | 5 | 2.39 | ||||
| 红菇属 Russula | 17 | 8.13 | ||||
| 栓菌属 Trametes | 5 | 2.39 |