Molecular analysis of the capsid protein gene of a german isolate of barley mild mosaic virus

Summary Barley mild mosaic virus (BaMMV) is one of the agents causing the barley yellow mosaic disease. The sequence corresponding to the 3end of the BaMMV RNA1 of a German isolate was sequenced and the coding sequence for the 251 amino acid containing capsid protein was determined. Comparison of this sequence to other potyviral sequences and to the corresponding sequence of two Japanese isolates of BaMMV was done. The three different isolates of BaMMV show a high degree of similarity.Abbrevations BaMMV barley mild mosaic virus - BaYMV barley yellow mosaic virus; bp: base pair - IPTG isopropyl -D thiogalactopyranoside - kb kilo base - NTR nontranslated region - ORF open reading frame - PVDF polyvinylidene difluoride