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The evolutionary genetics of emerging plant RNA viruses.
Molecular plant-microbe interactions : MPMI - 1 Mar 2011
Elena Santiago F, Bedhomme Stéphanie, Carrasco Purificación, Cuevas José M, de la Iglesia Francisca, Lafforgue Guillaume, Lalić Jasna, Pròsper Angels, Tromas Nicolas, Zwart Mark P
Abstract excerpt
Over the years, agriculture across the world has been compromised by a succession of devastating epidemics caused by new viruses that spilled over from reservoir species or by new variants of classic viruses that acquired new virulence factors or changed their epidemiological patterns. Viral emergence is usually associated with ecological change or with agronomical practices bringing together reservoirs and crop...
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