Virus Genes

, Volume 44, Issue 3, pp 536–538 | Cite as

Letter to the Editor: Mastrevirus sequences in a begomovirus-infected plant

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Abstract

Recombination is a major driver of diversification of geminiviruses and is believed to be, for a large part, responsible for the present taxonomic structure of the family Geminiviridae. Examples of recent intergeneric recombination between viruses of the genera Begomovirus and Mastrevirus remain to be identified. Here, we show that one of the prerequisites for begomovirus–mastrevirus intergeneric recombination, co-infection of a single plant, does occur. The lack of reported recombination between viruses of these two genera may suggest that there are constraints to viable intergeneric recombinant viruses being produced, possibly due to the extreme genetic distances between extant begomo- and mastreviruses.

Keywords

Begomovirus Mastrevirus Recombination 
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Acknowledgments

M.M. was supported by Ph.D. fellowship from the Higher Education Commission (HEC), Government of Pakistan. R.W.B. is supported by the HEC under the ‘‘Foreign Faculty Hiring Program’’. This research has been supported by projects from the Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of Pakistan, and a project between NIBGE and the Donald Danforth Plant Science Centre (St. Louis, USA) under the Pakistan–USA linkage program. The authors are also grateful for the interactions with other mastrevirus researchers, stimulated by an ICGEB-TWAS-UNESCO/IBSP grant under the “Joint Project on Capacity Building in Basic Molecular Biology” scheme led by Dr. D.P. Martin (University of Cape Town, South Africa). The support of NIBGE in conducting this research is gratefully acknowledged.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Muhammad Mubin
    • 1
    • 2
  • Shahid Mansoor
    • 1
  • Rob W. Briddon
    • 1
  1. 1.Agricultural Biotechnology DivisionNational Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic EngineeringFaisalabadPakistan
  2. 2.Centre of Agricultural Biochemistry and BiotechnologyUniversity of AgricultureFaisalabadPakistan

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