Sether, D. M., Melzer, M. J., Borth, W. B., and Hu, J. S. 2012. Pineapple bacilliform CO virtis: Diversity, detection, distribution, and transtnission Plant Dis. 96:1798-1804. Members of the genus Badnavirus (family Caulimovirdae) have been identified in dicots and monocots worldwide. The genome of a pineapple badnavirus, designated Pineapple bacilliform CO v;rÂĄK-HII (PBCOV-HIl), and nine genomic variants (A through H) were isolated and sequenced from pineapple. Ananas comosus, in Hawaii. The 7,451-nucleotide genome of PBCOV-HIl possesses three open reading frames (ORFs) encoding putative proteins of 20 (ORFl), 15 (0RF2), and 211 (ORF3) kDa. 0RF3 encodes a polyprotcin that includes a putative movement protein and viral aspartyl proteinase, reverse transcriptase, and RNase H regions. Three distinct groups of putative endogenous pineapple pararetroviral sequences and Metaviridae-like retrotransposons encoding long terminal repeat, rcverse-transcriptasc, RNasc H, and integrase regions were also identified from the pineapple genome. Detection assays were developed to distinguish PBCOV-HIl and genomic variants, putative endogenous pararetrovirus sequences, and Ananas Metaviridae sequences also identified in pineapple.