Complete Genome Sequence of Rice Tungro Bacilliform Virus Infecting Asian Rice (Oryza sativa) in Malaysia

Maathavi Kannan; Maisarah Mohamad Saad; Noraini Talip; Syarul Nataqain Baharum; Hamidun Bunawan

doi:10.1128/MRA.00262-19

Complete Genome Sequence of Rice Tungro Bacilliform Virus Infecting Asian Rice (Oryza sativa) in Malaysia

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 May 16;8(20):e00262-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00262-19.

Authors

Maathavi Kannan¹, Maisarah Mohamad Saad², Noraini Talip³, Syarul Nataqain Baharum¹, Hamidun Bunawan⁴

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Systems Biology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia.
² Rice Research Centre, MARDI Seberang Perai, Kepala Batas, Penang, Malaysia.
³ School of Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia.
⁴ Institute of Systems Biology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia hamidun.bunawan@ukm.edu.my.

Abstract

Rice tungro disease was discovered in Malaysia in the 1930s. The first and only genome of Rice tungro bacilliform virus (RTBV) isolated from rice in Malaysia was sequenced in 1999. After nearly two decades, here, we present the complete genome sequence of an RTBV isolate in rice from Seberang Perai, Malaysia.