Southern rice black-streaked dwarf virus (SRBSDV) is a novel Fijivirus prevalent in rice in southern and central China,and northern Vietnam. Its genome has 10 segments of double-stranded RNA named S1 to S10 according to their size. An isolate of SRBSDV,JNi4,was obtained from naturally infected maize plants from Ji'ning,Shandong province,in the 2008 maize season. Segments S7 to S10 of JNi4 share nucleotide identities of 72.6%-73.1%,72.3%-73%,73.9%-74.5% and 77.3%-79%,respectively,with corresponding segments of Rice black-streaked dwarf virus isolates,and identities of 99.7%,99.1%-99.7%,98.9%-99.5%,and 98.6%-99.2% with those of SRBSDV isolates HN and GD. JNi4 forms a separate branch with GD and HN in the phylogenetic trees constructed with genomic sequences of S7 to S10. These results confirm the proposed taxonomic status of SRBSDV as a distinct species of the genus Fijivirus and indicate that JNi4 is an isolate of SRBSDV. Shandong is so far the northernmost region where SRBSDV is found in China.
Peanut mottle virus(PeMoV) was detected via RT-PCR from two peanut samples(QD5 and QD6) with mottle symptom collected from Qingdao,Shandong Province.The 3′-terminal 892 bp fragments of their genome were cloned and sequenced.The cp genes of QD5 and QD6 were 837 bp in length and encoded 278 amino acids(aa),with DAA at aa sites regulating aphid transmission.QD5 and QD6 shared nucleotide identities of 95.3%-99.4% and aa identities of 93.5%-99.6% in cp genes with other PeMoV isolates available in the GenBank.The phylogenetic results showed that PeMoV were clustered to three groups,America,Asia and Australia,which were consistent with their geographical origins.This is the first molecular evidence on the incidence of PeMoV in China.
