Genetic Diversity of Sweet potato feathery mottle virus from Sweet Potatoes in Korea

Kwak, Hae Ryun; Kim, Mi Kyeong; Jung, Mi Nam; Lee, Su Heon; Park, Jin Woo; Kim, Kook Hyung; Ko, Sug Ju; Choi, Hong Soo

doi:2007.23.1.13

Plant Pathol J > Volume 23(1); 2007 > Article

The Plant Pathology Journal 2007;23(1):13-21.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5423/PPJ.2007.23.1.013 Published online March 31, 2007.

Genetic Diversity of Sweet potato feathery mottle virus from Sweet Potatoes in Korea

Hae Ryun Kwak, Mi Kyeong Kim, Mi Nam Jung, Su Heon Lee, Jin Woo Park, Kook Hyung Kim, Sug Ju Ko, Hong Soo Choi

Abstract

Sweet potato feathery mottle virus (SPFMV) is one of the most prevalent viruses infecting sweet potatoes and occurs widely in sweet potato cultivating areas in Korea. To assess their genetic variation, a total of 28 samples infected with SPFMV were subjected to restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis using DNAs amplified by RT-PCR with specific primer sets corresponding to the coat protein (CP) region of the virus. The similarity matrix by UPGMA procedure indicated that 28 samples infected with SPFMV were classified into three groups based on the number and size of DNA fragments by digestion of CP-encoding regions with 7 enzymes including SalI, AluI, EcoRI, HindIII, FokI, Sau3AI, and DraI bands. Four primer combinations out of 5 designed sets were able to differentiate SPFMV and sweet potato virus G infection, suggesting that these specific primers could be used to differentiate inter-groups of SPFMV. Sequence analysis of the CP genes of 17 SPFMV samples were 97-99% and 91-93% identical at the intra-group and intergroups of SPFMV, respectively. The N-terminal region of the CP is highly variable and examination of the multiple alignments of amino acid sequences revealed two residues (residues 31 and 32) that were consistently different between SPFMV-O and SPFMV-RC.

Key Words: genetic diversity, RFLP, SPFMV, sweet potato, 3`-UTR nucleotide sequences