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Complexity of begomovirus and betasatellite populations associated with chilli leaf curl disease in India.
The Journal of general virology - 1 Oct 2015
Kumar R Vinoth, Singh Achuit Kumar, Singh Ashish Kumar, Yadav Tribhuwan, Basu Saumik, Kushwaha Nirbhay, Chattopadhyay Brotati, Chakraborty Supriya
Abstract excerpt
Chilli, which encompasses several species in the genus Capsicum, is widely consumed throughout the world. In the Indian subcontinent, production of chilli is constrained due to chilli leaf curl disease (ChiLCD) caused by begomoviruses. Despite the considerable economic consequences of ChiLCD on chilli cultivation in India, there have been scant studies of the genetic diversity and structure of the begomoviruses...
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