Characterization and Comparison of Passionfruit Mottle Virus, a Newly Recognized Potyvirus, with Passionfruit Woodiness Virus

A virus, designated passionfruit mottle virus (PaMV), was isolated from plants of passionfruit cultivar Taunung No. 1, which showed mild mottling. Unlike the previously described passionfruit woodiness virus (PWV), PaMV does not induce severe foliage mosaic and woody, misshapen fruits. It was identified as a potyvirus on the basis of particle morphology, aphid transmissibility, and the ability to induce cytoplasmic cylindrical inclusions (CI) in infected cells. Of 25 plant species inoculated, 11 (Nicotiana benthamiana, four passiflora species, and six leguminous species) developed differential reactions (...)