Complete Genome Sequences of the Potyvirus Sweet potato virus 2 from East Timor and Australia

Solomon Maina; Owain R Edwards; Luis de Almeida; Abel Ximenes; Roger A C Jones

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00504-16

Complete Genome Sequences of the Potyvirus Sweet potato virus 2 from East Timor and Australia

Genome Announc. 2016 Jun 2;4(3):e00504-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00504-16.

Authors

Solomon Maina¹, Owain R Edwards², Luis de Almeida³, Abel Ximenes⁴, Roger A C Jones⁵

Affiliations

¹ School of Plant Biology and Institute of Agriculture, Faculty of Science, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia Cooperative Research Centre for Plant Biosecurity, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
² Cooperative Research Centre for Plant Biosecurity, Canberra, ACT, Australia CSIRO Entomology, Floreat Park, Western Australia, Australia.
³ Seeds of Life Project, Ministry Agriculture and Fisheries, Dili, East Timor.
⁴ DNQB-Plant Quarantine International Airport Nicolau Lobato Comoro, Dili, East Timor.
⁵ School of Plant Biology and Institute of Agriculture, Faculty of Science, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia Cooperative Research Centre for Plant Biosecurity, Canberra, ACT, Australia Department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia, South Perth, Western Australia, Australia roger.jones@uwa.edu.au.

Abstract

We present here the first complete genome sequences of Sweet potato virus 2 (SPV2) from sweet potato in Australia and East Timor, and compare these with five complete SPV2 genome sequences from South Korea and one each from Spain and the United States. Both were closely related to SPV2 genomes from South Korea, Spain, and the United States.

Grants and funding

This work, including the efforts of Solomon Maina, was funded in part by Cooperative Research Centres, Australian Government Department of Industry (CRCs) (Project PBCRC61056).