1. White yam (Dioscorea rotundata) plants exhibiting virus-like symptoms are co-infected with a new potyvirus and a new crinivirus in Ethiopia.
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Gogile A, Knierim D, Margaria P, Menzel W, Abide M, Kebede M, Kidanemariam D, and Abraham A
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- Ethiopia, RNA, Viral genetics, High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing, Coinfection virology, Dioscorea virology, Potyvirus genetics, Potyvirus isolation & purification, Potyvirus classification, Plant Diseases virology, Crinivirus genetics, Crinivirus isolation & purification, Crinivirus classification, Genome, Viral genetics, Phylogeny
- Abstract
White yam (Dioscorea rotundata) plants collected from farmers' fields and planted at the Areka Agricultural Research Center, Southern Ethiopia, displayed mosaic, mottling, and chlorosis symptoms. To determine the presence of viral pathogens, an investigation for virome characterization was conducted by Illumina high-throughput sequencing. The bioinformatics analysis allowed the assembly of five viral genomes, which according to the ICTV criteria were assigned to a novel potyvirus (3 genome sequences) and a novel crinivirus (2 genome sequences). The potyvirus showed ~ 66% nucleotide (nt) identity in the polyprotein sequence to yam mosaic virus (NC004752), clearly below the demarcation criteria of 76% identity. For the crinivirus, the RNA 1 and RNA 2 shared the highest sequence identity to lettuce chlorosis virus, and alignment of the aa sequence of the RdRp, CP and HSP70h (~ 49%, 45% and 76% identity), considered for the demarcation criteria, revealed the finding of a novel virus species. The names Ethiopian yam virus (EYV) and Yam virus 1 (YV-1) are proposed for the two tentative new virus species., (© 2024. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.)
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- 2024
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