Actinidia chlorotic ringspot-associated virus: a novel emaravirus infecting kiwifruit plants.

ABSTRACT: By integrating next-generation sequencing (NGS), bioinformatics, electron microscopy and conventional molecular biology tools, a new virus infecting kiwifruit vines has been identified and characterized. Being associated with double-membrane-bound bodies in infected tissues and having a genome composed of RNA segments, each one containing a single open reading frame in negative polarity, this virus shows the typical features of members of the genus Emaravirus. Five genomic RNA segments were identified. Additional molecular signatures in the viral RNAs and in the proteins they encode, together with data from phylogenetic analyses, support the proposal of creating a new species in the genus Emaravirus to classify the novel virus, which is tentatively named Actinidia chlorotic ringspot-associ

SUBMITTER: Zheng Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6638214 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature