First report of the complete genomic sequences from Indonesian isolates of bamboo mosaic virus and detection of genomic recombination events

Bamboo mosaic virus belongs to the genus Potexvirus, family Alphaflexiviridae. Bamboo leaves with chlorotic mosaic were collected from Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and RT-PCR and sequence analyses determined that the causal agent was bamboo mosaic virus (BaMV). The genome, excluding the poly(A) tail, of Indonesian isolate BaMV-Yogya1 comprised 6364 nucleotides and 6365 nucleotides for BaMV-Yogya2. Both isolates had higher similarities to Taiwanese isolates than to Chinese isolates. A recombination detection program suggested that recombination occurred within the ORF1 and ORF5 regions of BaMV-Yogya1. This is the first report of the complete genome sequence of BaMV from Indonesia.