Abstract:A potato virus Y isolate ( PVY-HBEI) was obtained from infected potato plants cultivated in Zhangjiakou City of Hebei Province. The coat protein gene (CP) was amplified from the extracted plant total RNA by using RT-PCR, and cloned into the pGEM2T vector and sequenced. The cloned segmentwas 801 bp and encodes 267 amino acid residues. It was cpmpared with other PVY isolates reported in GenBank. It shares 89.6% - 98.8% and 93.3% - 98.5% homology in nucleotide and the putative amino acid sequence, respectively, which suggested that the CP gene of PVY isolates is a relatively conserved sequence within the PVY genome, the homology between PVY-HBEI and PVYN and PVYO were 93.6% and 97.8% , resepectivly, thus itwas identified as an isolate of PVYO , the experiment also provided a rapid, sensitive and relatively inexpensive methods of PVY RT - PCR detection.