Table 1.

Plant virus sequences obtained from NCBI Taxonomy Browser and used to design the 70mer oligonucleotide probes for the microarray.

Virus genus	Genome type	No. of genome sequences	No. of nucleotide sequences	No. of species	No. of probes
ssRNA positive strand viruses
Capillovirus		2	49b	4	14
Carlavirus		15	430	15	29
Comovirus		10	69	5	24
Cucumovirus	Ma	9	879	3	16
Ilarvirus	M	42	477	14	45
Nepovirus	M	20	479	10	28
Pomovirus	M	12	98	4	25
Potexvirus		26	627	26	33
Potyvirus		48	4599	48	45
Sobemovirus		9	245	9	14
Tobamovirus		22	656	22	31
Tobravirus	M	6	91	3	11
ssRNA negative strand viruses
Tospovirus	M	18	1011	6	30
Total				169	345

^aM, multipartite genome.

^bFull-length genomic sequences were used to design probes, except for the genus Capillovirus, where partial nucleotide sequences were used.