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Diversity, Mutation and Recombination Analysis of Cotton Leaf Curl Geminiviruses.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2016
Saleem Huma, Nahid Nazia, Shakir Sara, Ijaz Sehrish, Murtaza Ghulam, Khan Asif Ali, Mubin Muhammad, Nawaz-Ul-Rehman Muhammad Shah
Abstract excerpt
The spread of cotton leaf curl disease in China, India and Pakistan is a recent phenomenon. Analysis of available sequence data determined that there is a substantial diversity of cotton-infecting geminiviruses in Pakistan. Phylogenetic analyses indicated that recombination between two major groups of viruses, cotton leaf curl Multan virus (CLCuMuV) and cotton leaf curl Kokhran virus (CLCuKoV), led to the...
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