Title |
A novel East African monopartite begomovirus-betasatellite complex that infects Vernonia amygdalina
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Published in |
Archives of Virology, November 2016
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DOI | 10.1007/s00705-016-3175-2 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Happyness G. Mollel, Joseph Ndunguru, Peter Sseruwagi, Titus Alicai, John Colvin, Jesús Navas-Castillo, Elvira Fiallo-Olivé |
Abstract |
The complete genomes of a monopartite begomovirus (genus Begomovirus, family Geminiviridae) and an associated betasatellite found infecting Vernonia amygdalina Delile (family Compositae) in Uganda were cloned and sequenced. Begomoviruses isolated from two samples showed the highest nucleotide sequence identity (73.1% and 73.2%) to an isolate of the monopartite begomovirus tomato leaf curl Vietnam virus, and betasatellites from the same samples exhibited the highest nucleotide sequence identity (67.1% and 68.2%) to vernonia yellow vein Fujian betasatellite. Following the current taxonomic criteria for begomovirus species demarcation, the isolates sequenced here represent a novel begomovirus species. Based on symptoms observed in the field, we propose the name vernonia crinkle virus (VeCrV) for this novel begomovirus and vernonia crinkle betasatellite (VeCrB) for the associated betasatellite. This is the first report of a monopartite begomovirus-betasatellite complex from Uganda. |
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