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Molecular diversity of poleroviruses infecting cucurbit crops in four countries reveals the presence of members of six distinct species.
Archives of virology - 1 Jun 2014
Knierim D, Tsai W S, Maiss E, Kenyon L
Abstract excerpt
When 66 cucurbit samples with yellowing symptoms from fields in Mali, the Philippines, Thailand and Uzbekistan were screened by RT-PCR using universal polerovirus primers, 21 were identified as harboring polerovirus RNA. When these 21 samples were screened with specific primers for the known cucurbit-infecting poleroviruses, suakwa aphid-borne yellows virus and a recombinant strain of cucurbit aphid-borne yellows...
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