Virology Journal, 2017 Background In Africa and Asia, sugarcane is the host of at least seven different virus species in the genus Mastrevirus of the family Geminiviridae. However, with the exception of Sugarcane white streak virus in Barbados, no other sugarcane-infecting ...
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Construction of an Agroinfectious Clone of a Korean Isolate of Sweet Potato Symptomless Virus 1 and Comparison of Its Infectivity According to Agrobacterium tumefaciens Strains in Nicotiana benthamiana [PDF]
The Plant Pathology Journal, 2023 Sweet potato symptomless virus 1 (SPSMV-1) is a single-stranded circular DNA virus, belonging to the genus Mastrevirus (family Geminiviridae) that was first identified on sweet potato plants in South Korea in 2012.
Phuong T. Ho +5 more
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Sweet Potato Symptomless Virus 1: First Detection in Europe and Generation of an Infectious Clone [PDF]
Microorganisms, 2022 Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas), a staple food for people in many of the least developed countries, is affected by many viral diseases. In 2017, complete genome sequences of sweet potato symptomless virus 1 (SPSMV-1, genus Mastrevirus, family ...
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Complete Genome Sequence of a Novel Monopartite Mastrevirus, Soybean Geminivirus B, Isolated from Soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merrill) [PDF]
Plants, 2022 Soybean is one of the most important crops in Korea. To identify the viruses infecting soybean, we conducted RNA sequencing with samples displaying symptoms of viral disease. A contig displaying sequence similarity to the known Geminivirus was identified.
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The Past, Present, and Future of Wheat Dwarf Virus Management—A Review [PDF]
Plants, 2023 Wheat dwarf disease (WDD) is an important disease of monocotyledonous species, including economically important cereals. The causative pathogen, wheat dwarf virus (WDV), is persistently transmitted mainly by the leafhopper Psammotettix alienus and can ...
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Metagenomic identification of novel viruses of maize and teosinte in North America [PDF]
BMC Genomics, 2022 Background Maize-infecting viruses are known to inflict significant agronomic yield loss throughout the world annually. Identification of known or novel causal agents of disease prior to outbreak is imperative to preserve food security via future crop ...
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Two Novel Geminiviruses Identified in Bees (Apis mellifera and Nomia sp.) [PDF]
VirusesMembers of the Geminviridae family are circular single-stranded DNA plant-infecting viruses, some of which impact global food production. Geminiviruses are vectored by sap-feeding insects such as leafhoppers, treehoppers, aphids, and whiteflies ...
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RNA interference-based resistance against a legume mastrevirus [PDF]
Virology Journal, 2011 Background RNA interference (RNAi) is a homology-dependant gene silencing mechanism and has been widely used to engineer resistance in plants against RNA viruses.
Mansoor Shahid +3 more
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Molecular characterization of wheat dwarf virus isolates from Serbia based on complete genome sequences [PDF]
Frontiers in MicrobiologyIntroductionWheat dwarf virus (WDV), the species Mastrevirus hordei of the genus Mastrevirus in the family Geminiviridae, is a cereal virus commonly detected in several European, African and Asian countries that causes economic losses.MethodsIn the ...
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Pest categorisation of chickpea chlorotic dwarf virus
EFSA Journal, 2022 The EFSA Panel on Plant Health conducted a pest categorisation of chickpea chlorotic dwarf virus (CpCDV) for the EU territory. The identity of CpCDV, a member of the genus Mastrevirus (family Geminiviridae) is established.
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