First report of cherry virus A infecting Prunus mume in South Korea

Seungmo Lim; Davaajargal Igori; Dasom Baek; In-Sook Cho; Gug-Seoun Choi; Jae Sun Moon

doi:10.1007/s13337-017-0374-8

First report of cherry virus A infecting Prunus mume in South Korea

Virusdisease. 2017 Jun;28(2):220-221. doi: 10.1007/s13337-017-0374-8. Epub 2017 May 19.

Authors

Seungmo Lim^{1

2

3}, Davaajargal Igori^{1

2}, Dasom Baek^{1

2}, In-Sook Cho⁴, Gug-Seoun Choi⁴, Jae Sun Moon^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Plant Systems Engineering Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon, 34141 Republic of Korea.
² Biosystems and Bioengineering Program, University of Science and Technology, Daejeon, 34113 Republic of Korea.
³ Crop Production Technology Research Division, National Institute of Crop Science, Rural Development Administration, Miryang, 50424 Republic of Korea.
⁴ Horticultural and Herbal Crop Environment Division, National Institute of Horticultural and Herbal Science, Rural Development Administration, Wanju, 55365 Republic of Korea.

Abstract

We report the detection of cherry virus A (CVA) in a Prunus mume sample using Illumina HiSeq 2500 paired-end RNA sequencing. CVA isolate OC shared highest sequence identity with CVA isolate J, which was recently identified in P. armeniaca in Japan. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of CVA infecting P. mume in Korea and the first complete genome sequence of CVA isolated from P. mume in the world.

Keywords: CVA; Capillovirus; Next-generation sequencing; Prunus mume.