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SBMV-S is a resistance-breaking mutant of an Arkansas isolate of the bean strain of southern bean mosaic virus (SBMV-BARK) that is able to move systemically in Phaseolus vulgaris cvs. Pinto and Great Northern, whereas the wild-type SBMV-BARK causes local necrotic lesions and is restricted to the inoculated leaves of these hosts. Sequence analysis of the 4136 nucleotide genomes of SBMV-BARK and SBMV-S revealed seven nucleotide differences, but only four deduced amino acid changes. A single amino acid change occurred in the C-terminal region of the putative RNA-dependent RNA polymerase and three differences were identified in the N-terminal portion of the virus coat protein. SBMV-BARK and SBMV-S were compared with other sobemoviruses and were found to contain a high level of nucleotide sequence identity (91.3%) to SBMV-B. Unlike SBMV-B however, SBMV-BARK and SBMV-S contained four putative overlapping open reading frames, making them more similar in genome organization to the cowpea strain, SBMV-C. The possibility exists that mutations or even errors, that resulted in mis-identification of open reading frames, occurred in previously published information on nucleotide sequence and genomic organization for SBMV-B.
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Received November 23, 1997 Accepted June 16, 1998
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Lee, L., Anderson, E.J. Nucleotide sequence of a resistance breaking mutant of southern bean mosaic virus. Arch. Virol. 143, 2189–2201 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s007050050451
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