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1 Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
2 Department of Life Sciences, New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas, NM 87701, USA
Correspondence
Bruce C. Kirkpatrick
bckirkpatrick{at}ucdavis.edu
The complete nucleotide sequences of the two plasmids from the phytoplasma beet leafhopper-transmitted virescence agent (BLTVA) have been determined. The larger plasmid, pBLTVA-1, was 10 785 nt in length and contained 11 putative ORFs, almost all of which were duplicated or triplicated on the plasmid due to the presence of large repeated regions. The sequence contained a series of tandem repeats, the largest of which was 338 nt long. The sequences of ORFs 4 and 11 showed homology with the replication genes of plasmids from other phytoplasmas and from geminiviruses. ORF9, the only ORF present as a single copy, showed homology with DNA primase genes from bacterial chromosomes and contained the conserved zinc finger and topoisomerase/primase domains. None of the other eight ORFs showed homology with known sequences in the GenBank database. pBLTVA-2 was 2587 nt in length, and all of its sequence was nearly identical to sequences from pBLTVA-1, most of which spanned ORFs 10 and 11, including the 338 nt tandem repeat. Analysis of 30 strains of BLTVA showed that most of the 11 putative ORFs were present, but the size of the plasmids varied in these strains.
The GenBank accession numbers for the sequences reported in this paper are AY423627 (pBLTVA-1) and AY423628 (pBLTVA-2).
Supplementary sequence alignments are available with the online version of this paper (at http://mic.sgmjournals.org).
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