The invention discloses an O type foot-and-mouth 
disease virus variant as well as a coding 
gene and application thereof. In the invention, an O type foot-and-mouth 
disease virus pan-Asia strain O / YS / CHA / 05 is firstly separated out, the 
nucleotide sequence of the O type foot-and-mouth 
disease virus pan-Asia strain O / YS / CHA / 05 SEQ ID NO: 1, and the 
amino acid sequence is SEQ ID NO: 2. In comparison with a VP1 
amino acid sequence, the 
virus strain has 7 variable sites, five of which are centralized in a G-H ring. 
Mutation of the sites ensures that the virus variant has the capability of escaping from 
host immunity so as to have the superiority for becoming a popular 
virus strain. Therefore, the variant can be employed to prepare an 
inactivated vaccine for prevention and treatment of the variant and relevant strains, dominant 
antigen epitope of the variant can be employed to prepare a synthetic 
peptide vaccine, and the variant can be employed to develop novel O type foot-and-mouth disease virus vaccines such as VLP vaccine and the like. Therefore, the invention has important value in controlling the popularity of O / YS / CHA / 05 and relevant variable strains.