Molecular characterization of a new begomovirus that infects Euphorbia heterophylla and Solanum lycopersicum in Venezuela

Arch Virol. 2012 Feb;157(2):379-82. doi: 10.1007/s00705-011-1157-y. Epub 2011 Nov 4.

Abstract

We report the complete nucleotide sequence of a begomovirus isolate infecting Euphorbia heterophylla and tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) in central Venezuela. Based on the current taxonomic criteria for the genus Begomovirus, the isolate was shown to represent a novel species, tentatively named Euphorbia mosaic Venezuela virus (EuMVV). Its DNA-A is most closely related to those of Euphorbia-infecting begomoviruses from the Caribbean and Central America. The DNA B component forms a phylogenetic cluster with Euphorbia and Sida-infecting begomoviruses from the squash leaf curl virus (SLCV) cluster. EuMVV is transmissible to S. lycopersicum and Capsicum annuum by biolistics of infectious cloned DNA-A and DNA-B components and induces characteristic leaf downward curling and yellowing in S. lycopersicum and and yellowing and leaf distortion in Capsicum annuum.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Begomovirus / classification
  • Begomovirus / genetics
  • Begomovirus / isolation & purification*
  • Begomovirus / physiology
  • Capsicum / virology
  • Euphorbia / virology*
  • Genome, Viral
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Phylogeny
  • Plant Diseases / virology*
  • Solanum / virology*
  • Venezuela