Phylogenetic and recombination analysis of tomato spotted wilt virus

PLoS One. 2013 May 17;8(5):e63380. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063380. Print 2013.

Abstract

Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) severely damages and reduces the yield of many economically important plants worldwide. In this study, we determined the whole-genome sequences of 10 TSWV isolates recently identified from various regions and hosts in Korea. Phylogenetic analysis of these 10 isolates as well as the three previously sequenced isolates indicated that the 13 Korean TSWV isolates could be divided into two groups reflecting either two different origins or divergences of Korean TSWV isolates. In addition, the complete nucleotide sequences for the 13 Korean TSWV isolates along with previously sequenced TSWV RNA segments from Korea and other countries were subjected to phylogenetic and recombination analysis. The phylogenetic analysis indicated that both the RNA L and RNA M segments of most Korean isolates might have originated in Western Europe and North America but that the RNA S segments for all Korean isolates might have originated in China and Japan. Recombination analysis identified a total of 12 recombination events among all isolates and segments and five recombination events among the 13 Korea isolates; among the five recombinants from Korea, three contained the whole RNA L segment, suggesting reassortment rather than recombination. Our analyses provide evidence that both recombination and reassortment have contributed to the molecular diversity of TSWV.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Genetic Variation
  • Genome, Viral*
  • Phylogeny
  • Phylogeography
  • Plant Diseases / virology
  • Recombination, Genetic*
  • Republic of Korea
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA
  • Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
  • Tospovirus / genetics*

Grants and funding

This research was supported in part by grants from the Next-Generation BioGreen 21 Program (No. PJ00819801), Rural Development Administration; the National Research Foundation grant (No. 20110012328) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology (MEST); and the Vegetable Breeding Research Center (No. 710001-03) through Agriculture Research Center program from the Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of Korea. SL, JSL, WKC, and JY were supported by research fellowships from the Brain Korea 21 Project. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.