complete genome sequence of an isolate of clerodendron yellow mosaic virusa new begomovirus from india clerodendron inerme a common hedge plant grown in india is affected by a yellow mosaic disease caused by a begomovirus in the present study the complete genome dna a of this virus was cloned and sequenced the total size of dna a is 2760 nucleotides the genome of this virus contains six open reading frames and a noncoding intergenic region of 293 nucleotides nucleotide sequence comparison analysis revealed maximum sequence identity with papaya leaf curl viruspakistan pakistancotton2002 739 as this virus had less than 89 identity with other begomoviruses it was identified as a new begomovirus species and tentatively named as clerodendron yellow mosaic virusindianew delhi2007 clymvinnd07