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Maize Dwarf Mosaic Virus: From Genome to Disease Management.
Viruses - 13 Sept 2018
Kannan Maathavi, Ismail Ismanizan, Bunawan Hamidun
Abstract excerpt
Maize dwarf mosaic virus (MDMV) is a serious maize pathogen, epidemic worldwide, and one of the most common virus diseases for monocotyledonous plants, causing up to 70% loss in corn yield globally since 1960. MDMV belongs to the genus Potyvirus (Potyviridae) and was first identified in 1964 in Illinois in corn and Johnsongrass. MDMV is a single stranded positive sense RNA virus and is transmitted in a...
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