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Two novel begomoviruses belonging to different lineages infecting Rhynchosia minima

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Rhynchosia minima is a host for several begomoviruses, both in the Old World and the New World. In Cuba, a whitefly-transmitted disease causing yellow mosaic symptoms, suggested to be of viral origin, was described more than 30 years ago in R. minima, but no information about the nature of the viruses infecting this weed in this country is available to date. Here, we report the detection of isolates of two novel begomovirus species infecting R. minima in Cuba, which we proposed be named Rhynchosia golden mosaic Havana virus (RhGMHaV) and Rhynchosia rugose golden mosaic virus (RhRGMV). The highest nucleotide sequence identities of RhGMHaV and RhRGMV DNA-A were with isolates of Rhynchosia golden mosaic virus (78.7%) and Sida golden mosaic virus (87.5%), respectively. Phylogenetic analysis demonstrated that these novel viruses belong to two different lineages of New World begomoviruses.

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Acknowledgments

The work in Cuba was partially supported by the International Foundation for Science (Stockholm, Sweden) through a grant (C/4778-1) to E. F.-O. The work in Spain was supported by grant GEN2006-27770-C2-2 (Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, Spain, co-financed by FEDER) in the framework of the ERA-NET Plant Genomics project ERA-PG 040B RCA-Genomics of the 6th EU Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP6). E. F.-O. was the recipient of a MAEC-AECID fellowship (Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores y de Cooperación, Spain). We thank Iris Palenzuela (CENSA) for her kind help with plant identification.

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  1. Centro Nacional de Sanidad Agropecuaria (CENSA), 32700, San José de Las Lajas, La Habana, Cuba

    Elvira Fiallo-Olivé & Yamila Martínez-Zubiaur

  2. Instituto de Hortofruticultura Subtropical y Mediterránea “La Mayora”, Universidad de Málaga-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IHSM-UMA-CSIC), Estación Experimental “La Mayora”, 29750, Algarrobo-Costa, Málaga, Spain

    Elvira Fiallo-Olivé, Jesús Navas-Castillo & Enrique Moriones

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The sequences reported in this paper have been deposited in GenBank under the accession numbers HM236368, HM236369, HM236370, and HM236371.

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Fiallo-Olivé, E., Navas-Castillo, J., Moriones, E. et al. Two novel begomoviruses belonging to different lineages infecting Rhynchosia minima . Arch Virol 155, 2053–2058 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00705-010-0803-0

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