Garlic common latent virus

GarCLV main transmission is through propagation material. As a result, it is often widespread among garlic crop. The virus single infection in garlic is usually symptomless, but in mixed infections with leek yellow stripe virus (LYSV, Potyvirus) or onion yellow dwarf virus (OYDV, Potyvirus) could form ‘garlic viral complex’ which increases severity of the other viruses infection. Other Allium spp. such as Allium caeruleum, Allium cristophii, Allium cyathophorum, Allium nutans, Allium schoenoprasum, Allium scorodoprasum, Allium senescens subsp. montanum, and Allium sphaerocephalon had also been reported to be infected by GarCLV. ==Genome==

The virus complete genome, excluding poly-(A) tail, is 8,353 nt long, and contains six open reading frame (ORFs). ORFs 2, 3, 4 are triple gene block (TGB) which encodes movement protein, while ORF5 is the viral coat protein (CP) encoding sequence. ==Phylogeny==

Earlier phylogenetic analyses based on capsid (CP) gene suggested that global GarCLV isolates were highly similar and can be divided into two major groups only. ==References==