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Next generation sequencing elucidates cacao badnavirus diversity and reveals the existence of more than ten viral species.
Virus research - 15 Jan 2018
Muller E, Ravel S, Agret C, Abrokwah F, Dzahini-Obiatey H, Galyuon I, Kouakou K, Jeyaseelan E C, Allainguillaume J, Wetten A
Abstract excerpt
Cacao swollen shoot virus is a member of the family Caulimoviridae, genus Badnavirus and is naturally transmitted to Theobroma cacao (L.) by several mealybug species. CSSV populations in West African countries are highly variable and genetically structured into several different groups based on the diversity in the first part of ORF3 which encodes the movement protein. To unravel the extent of isolate diversity...
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