Article
Molecular characterization of two distinct monopartite begomoviruses infecting tomato in India.
Virology journal - 23 Nov 2010
Pandey Prerna, Mukhopadhya Subhra, Naqvi Afsar R, Mukherjee Sunil K, Shekhawat Gyan S, Choudhury Nirupam R
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Tomato leaf curl viruses, which are the members of the genus Begomovirus, have emerged as devastating pathogens worldwide causing huge economic losses and threatening production of crops like cassava, cotton, grain legumes and vegetables. Even though the ToLCV isolates from Northern India have been shown to possess bipartite genome (designated as DNA A and DNA B), those from Australia, Taiwan and...
Topics
- Begomovirus
- Cloning, Molecular
- Cluster Analysis
- DNA, Viral
- Evolution, Molecular
- Genetic Variation
- Genome, Viral
- India
- Solanum lycopersicum
- Open Reading Frames
- Phylogeny
- Recombination, Genetic
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Sequence Homology