First report of Squash leaf curl China virus in Pakistan
M. Tahir A D , M. S. Haider B and R. W. Briddon CA NUST Centre of Virology and Immunology, National University of Science and Technology, Tamiz ud Din Road, Lalkurti, Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
B School of Biological Sciences, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.
C National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Jhang Road, Faisalabad, Pakistan.
D Corresponding author. Email: gullsbs@yahoo.com
Australasian Plant Disease Notes 5(1) 21-24 https://doi.org/10.1071/DN10009
Submitted: 5 January 2010 Accepted: 22 February 2010 Published: 22 March 2010
Abstract
Leaf samples of Cucurbita pepo plants showing yellow mosaic symptoms were collected from Lahore, Pakistan. Full-length clones of a bipartite begomovirus were isolated and sequenced in their entirety. The sequences showed the highest levels of nucleotide sequence identity (98.4% for the DNA-A and 89.6% for the DNA-B) to the ‘Indian’ strain of Squash leaf curl China virus (SLCCNV).
Acknowledgement
M. Tahir and M. S. Haider acknowledge the support of the School of Biological Sciences, University of the Punjab, in conducting this study. R. W. Briddon is supported by the Higher Education Commission (Pakistan) under the ‘‘Foreign Faculty Hiring’’ scheme.
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