Project description:Small RNA libraries were constructed from total RNA from Jasminum sambac plants exhibiting virus-like symptoms. After sequencing, small RNAs were assembled into contigs with MetaVelvet and assembled contigs were aligned against the NR database of NCBI using BLASTx. Top hits that reported a virus as subject were considered putative viral sequences. Based on such alignments, the whole genome of a virus, we tentatively name Jasmine Virus H was recovered and cloned. Two more small RNA libraries were made in a confirmatory experiment. One from Jasminum sambac and another one from Nicotiana benthamiana plants infected with the newly-cloned virus. The small RNA libraries were aligned against the full-length sequence of Jasmine Virus H to determine the spacial distribution of virus-derived small RNAs along the virus genome.
