“…The SPLCV monopartite genome has two open reading frames (ORF) (V1 and V2) in the virion sense and four ORFs (C1, C2, C3 and C4) in the complementary sense, separated by an intergenic region (IR) containing a conserved stem-loop motif, in a 2Á8-kb single-stranded circular DNA (Lotrakul & Valverde, 1999). Complete genome sequences of SPLCV isolates in Korea have been characterized, and their phylogenetic relationships with other sweepovirus species have been determined (Park et al, 2010;Choi et al, 2012). SPLCV and related sweepoviruses have been found in many countries, including Brazil, China, India, Italy, Kenya, Korea, Peru, Spain and Uganda (Banks et al, 1999;Briddon et al, 2006;Kwak et al, 2006;Luan et al, 2006;Miano et al, 2006;Prasanth & Hegde, 2008;Lozano et al, 2009;Paprotka et al, 2010;Albuquerque et al, 2011;Wasswa et al, 2011).…”