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Lettuce mosaic virus: from pathogen diversity to host interactors.
Molecular plant pathology - 1 Mar 2008
German-Retana Sylvie, Walter Jocelyne, Le Gall Olivier
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TAXONOMY: Lettuce mosaic virus (LMV) belongs to the genus Potyvirus (type species Potato virus Y) in the family Potyviridae. PHYSICAL PROPERTIES: The virion is filamentous, flexuous with a length of 750 nm and a width of 15 nm. The particles are made of a genomic RNA of 10 080 nucleotides, covalently linked to a viral-encoded protein (the VPg) at the 5' end and with a 3' poly A tail, and encapsidated in a single...
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