Two Complete Genome Sequences of Squash mosaic virus from 20-Year-Old Cucurbit Leaf Samples from Australia

Solomon Maina; Owain R Edwards; Roger A C Jones

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00778-17

Two Complete Genome Sequences of Squash mosaic virus from 20-Year-Old Cucurbit Leaf Samples from Australia

Genome Announc. 2017 Aug 10;5(32):e00778-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00778-17.

Authors

Solomon Maina^{1

2

3}, Owain R Edwards^{3

4}, Roger A C Jones^{5

3

6}

Affiliations

¹ School of Agriculture and Environment, Faculty of Science, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia.
² Institute of Agriculture, Faculty of Science, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia.
³ Cooperative Research Centre for Plant Biosecurity, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
⁴ CSIRO Land and Water, Floreat Park, Western Australia, Australia.
⁵ Institute of Agriculture, Faculty of Science, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia roger.jones@uwa.edu.au.
⁶ Department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia, South Perth, Western Australia, Australia.

Abstract

We present the first complete Australian Squash mosaic virus (SqMV) genome sequences. We compared the 2 Australian genomes from 20-year-old cucurbit samples with 8 other SqMV genomes. The Australian genomes shared >99.0% nucleotide identities, and their RNA1 and RNA2 sequences most closely resembled isolates Y and Kimbe from Japan, respectively.