Complete genome sequence of a novel genotype of squash mosaic virus infecting squash in Spain

Rugang Li; Shan Gao; Sven Berendsen; Zhangjun Fei; Kai-Shu Ling

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01583-14

Complete genome sequence of a novel genotype of squash mosaic virus infecting squash in Spain

Genome Announc. 2015 Feb 12;3(1):e01583-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01583-14.

Authors

Rugang Li¹, Shan Gao², Sven Berendsen³, Zhangjun Fei, Kai-Shu Ling⁴

Affiliations

¹ U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Vegetable Laboratory, Charleston, South Carolina, USA.
² Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA.
³ Rijk Zwaan Breeding B.V., De Lier, the Netherlands.
⁴ U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Vegetable Laboratory, Charleston, South Carolina, USA [email protected].

Abstract

The complete genome sequence of a new isolate of squash mosaic virus (SqMV) infecting squash plants in Spain was obtained using deep sequencing of small RNAs. The low nucleotide sequence identities, with only 87 to 88% for RNA1 and 84 to 86% for RNA2 to known SqMV isolates, suggested that this isolate belongs to a novel genotype.