“…Most, but not all, of the European isolates belonging to the world-B group are B host types, for instance UK 1 is of B host type and belongs to the world-B group, and, although many Brassica plants are susceptible to it, it rarely infects Raphanus sativus and then systemically but asymptomatically. Despite growing interest in the molecular evolution of potyviruses (Moreno et al, 2004;Tan et al, 2004;Tomitaka & Ohshima, 2006;Ohshima et al, 2007;Tomitaka et al, 2007;Gibbs et al, 2008a, b;Ogawa et al, 2008;Seo et al, 2009), there have been few attempts to study their adaptive evolution, although this could provide crucial information about the nature of the interaction between host and virus.…”