TY - JOUR
T1 - A novel sugarcane-infecting mastrevirus from South Africa
AU - Lawry, Robert
AU - Martin, Darren P.
AU - Shepherd, Dionne N.
AU - van Antwerpen, Tania
AU - Varsani, Arvind
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors wish to thank the South African National Research Foundation (NRF) for funding this research. AV was supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, DPM was supported by the NRF and the Wellcome Trust. Genebank accession # SacSV-[ZA-Emp-T1-2008]: GQ273988.
PY - 2009/10
Y1 - 2009/10
N2 - The sugarcane-infecting streak viruses (SISVs) are a diverse collection of mastreviruses (family Geminiviridae) within the African streak virus group. Four SISVs have currently been described, including the well-characterized maize streak virus. Here, we present a full annotated sequence record of an isolate of a new SISV species, Saccharum streak virus (SacSV), isolated in South Africa. The isolate shares less than 66% identity with any other mastrevirus, but is most closely related to Urochloa streak virus (USV), a mastrevirus from Nigeria that has until now been an outlier in the African streak virus phylogenetic tree. As with USV, the SacSV isolate we have characterized bears no obvious evidence of inter-species recombination.
AB - The sugarcane-infecting streak viruses (SISVs) are a diverse collection of mastreviruses (family Geminiviridae) within the African streak virus group. Four SISVs have currently been described, including the well-characterized maize streak virus. Here, we present a full annotated sequence record of an isolate of a new SISV species, Saccharum streak virus (SacSV), isolated in South Africa. The isolate shares less than 66% identity with any other mastrevirus, but is most closely related to Urochloa streak virus (USV), a mastrevirus from Nigeria that has until now been an outlier in the African streak virus phylogenetic tree. As with USV, the SacSV isolate we have characterized bears no obvious evidence of inter-species recombination.
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U2 - 10.1007/s00705-009-0490-x
DO - 10.1007/s00705-009-0490-x
M3 - Article
C2 - 19756359
AN - SCOPUS:70350380851
SN - 0304-8608
VL - 154
SP - 1699
EP - 1703
JO - Archives of Virology
JF - Archives of Virology
IS - 10
ER -