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Characterization of the genome of cacao swollen shoot virus

¹ Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Station de Pathologie Végétale, BP 94, 84143 Montfavet, France
and² IRCC, BP 90, Kpalimé, Togo

Cacao swollen shoot disease has been known to be caused by a small non-enveloped bacilliform virus for more than 25 years. Purification using a combination of celite filtration, polyethylene glycol concentration and sucrose density gradient centrifugation has yielded concentrated preparations of purified cacao swollen shoot virus (CSSV). Results of nuclease sensitivity tests indicated that the CSSV genome consists of dsDNA which has two single-stranded regions. The approximate size of CSSV DNA calculated from restriction enzyme digests is 7.4 kbp. It is very likely that CSSV is a member of the commelina yellow mottle virus group.

Received 7 November 1990; accepted 26 March 1991.