Complete nucleotide sequence of the type isolate of Cowpea mild mottle virus from Ghana
Complete nucleotide sequence of the type isolate of Cowpea mild mottle virus from Ghana
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加纳豇豆轻斑驳病毒典型分离株的完整核苷酸序列
作者:
W. Menzel;S. Winter;H. Vetten
Cowpea mild mottle virus (CPMMV) was first reported to cause systemic mottling, chlorotic blotches and leaf malformations in cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L.) in 1973 [5] and to be widespread in the Eastern Region of Ghana, West Africa. Since then, it has been described to naturally infect other leguminous crops such as peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.), soybean (Glycine max L.) and common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) [19]. CPMMV symptoms are thought to vary seasonally. On peanut, it might cause systemic chlorosis, chlorotic rings, leaf rolling or veinal necrosis, and on soybean, it is known to cause chlorosis, vein mosaic, and apical necrosis or other malformations [5, 12, 13, 15]. CPMMV has flexuous filamentous particles (approx. 650 nm in length) resembling those of members of the genus Carlavirus. In contrast to the vast majority of carlaviruses, which are aphid-transmitted, CPMMV is transmitted in a non-persistent manner by the whitefly Bemisia tabaci G. [12, 17] and has also been assigned to the genus Carlavirus [2]. It differs from aphid-borne carlaviruses also in its intracellular occurrence in its host plants [6]. In accordance with other carlaviruses infecting members of the family Fabaceae, such as pea streak virus (PeSV) and red clover vein mosaic virus (RCVMV), CPMMV is thought to be seed-borne in a number of its leguminous hosts, even if there have been contradictory reports [5, 11, 12]. The experimental host range of CPMMV includes plant species from several families, which mainly display chlorotic local lesions or systemic mottle upon inoculation/ infection. Since the initial reports from Africa [5, 20], the virus has been discovered in India [13], Thailand [12] and South America [8, 19]. A distinct isolate responsible for pale chlorosis disease in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) was reported from Israel [3, 7, 14]. Comparisons of a tomato pale chlorosis isolate and an eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) isolate from Jordan that causes a mild leaf mosaic with legume isolates from India and West Africa showed that the isolates from solanaceous hosts are very similar to, but clearly distinct from, the legume isolates [15]. The first published nucleotide sequence information about CPMMV (not available in GenBank) was a 30-terminal 0.9-kb fragment of a West African cowpea isolate collected in the eastern region of Ghana [4]. It was generated using a universal primer for carlaviruses and supported the assignment of CPMMV to the genus Carlavirus. Since then, six 30-terminal partial sequences covering 0.9 kb [9] to 2.5 kb [18] have been submitted to GenBank. In this paper, we report the first complete genome sequence of a CPMMV isolate, which is probably the same (type) isolate as that partially sequenced by Badge et al. [4].