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Founder effect, plant host, and recombination shape the emergent population of begomoviruses that cause the tomato yellow leaf curl disease in the Mediterranean basin.
Virology - 15 Mar 2007
García-Andrés Susana, Accotto Gian Paolo, Navas-Castillo Jesús, Moriones Enrique
Abstract excerpt
Tomato yellow leaf curl disease (TYLCD)-associated viruses present a highly structured population in the western Mediterranean basin, depending on host, geographical region and time. About 1,900 tomato and common bean samples were analyzed from which 111 isolates were characterized genetically based on a genome sequence that comprises coding and non-coding regions. Isolates of three distinct begomoviruses...
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