The proposed new species, cacao red vein virus, and three previously recognized badnavirus species are associated with cacao swollen shoot disease

Table 3 Pairwise nucleotide identity for the complete genome sequence of cacao-infecting badnavirus isolates determined in this study

Legend: The GenBank reference sequences are indicated by Accession number, with country code. The 14 badnaviral genome sequences determined here are indicated by country code of collection and sample number. The sequence alignment was carried out using MUSCLE, implemented in the Species Demarcation Tool v1.2 software, using ≥80% as the species cutoff. The abbreviations indicating the country origin of each isolate are as follows: CI = Cote d’Ivoire, GH = Ghana, and TG = Togo. Virus species abbreviations are indicated as: CSSV = Cacao swollen shoot virus; CSSTAV = Cacao swollen shoot Togo A virus; CSSCDV = Cacao swollen shoot CD virus; and CRVV = Cacao red vein virus

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