GENERATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF 3 MONOCLONAL-ANTIBODIES USEFUL IN DETECTING AND DISTINGUISHING BEAN GOLDEN MOSAIC-VIRUS ISOLATES

Two monoclonal antibodies prepared to purified virions of bean golden mosaic virus (BGMV) isolates from Guatemala (GA) and the Dominican Rep ublic (DR) and one monoclonal antibody prepared to the coat protein of a BGMV isolate from Brazil (BZ) expressed in Escherichia coli were us eful serological probes for detection of whitefly-transmitted geminivi ruses. Abutilon mosaic, BGMV isolates from Puerto Rico (PR), and Homes tead, Florida (H), BGMV-BZ, -DR, and -GA isolates, euphorbia mosaic, r hynchosia mosaic, squash leaf curl, soybean yellow mosaic, an isolate from Macroporous lathyroides in Florida, and tomato mottle geminivirus es all reacted efficiently in Western blot and enzyme-linked immunosor bent assay with monoclonal antibody 3F7, indicating that this monoclon al antibody has a broad spectrum of reactivity. Another monoclonal ant ibody (2G5) reacted only with BGMV-DR, -GA, and -PR isolates. A third monoclonal antibody (5C5) reacted only with BGMV-BZ. A new geminivirus infecting cabbage (Brassicaceae) in Florida did not react with any of the three monoclonal antibodies.