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Molecular characterization of two badnavirus genomes associated with Canna yellow mottle disease.
Virus research - 2 Jan 2018
Wijayasekara Dulanjani, Hoyt Peter, Gimondo Austin, Dunn Bruce, Thapa Aastha, Jones Hannah, Verchot Jeanmarie
Abstract excerpt
Members of the genus Badnavirus have a single non-covalently closed circular double-stranded DNA genome of 7.2-9.2kb. The genome encodes three open reading frames (ORFs) on the positive DNA strand. Canna yellow mottle virus (CaYMV) is a badnavirus that has been described as the etiological cause of yellow mottle disease in canna, although only a 565bp fragment of the genome has been previously reported from...
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