Pepper mild mottle virus infection in cayenne and sweet pepper in Indonesia

Abstract

This is a report of the natural occurrence of Capsicum frutescens (cayenne pepper) and Capsicum annuum L. (sweet pepper) infection with pepper mild mottle virus (PMMoV) in Indonesia, which was detected serologically via dot-immunobinding assay and confirmed by RT-PCR of the coat-protein–encoding gene and DNA sequencing. Phylogenetically, the cayenne and sweet-pepper isolates were closely related to Capsicum spp. isolates from Turkey, Italy and Korea, with 99.1%–99.5% and 100% identity at the nucleotide and amino acid levels, respectively.