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How To Be a Successful Monopartite Begomovirus in a Bipartite-Dominated World: Emergence and Spread of Tomato Mottle Leaf Curl Virus in Brazil.
Journal of virology - 28 Sept 2022
Souza Juliana O, Melgarejo Tomás A, Vu Sandra, Nakasu Erich Y T, Chen Li-Fang, Rojas Maria R, Zerbini F Murilo, Inoue-Nagata Alice K, Gilbertson Robert L
Abstract excerpt
Begomoviruses are members of the family Geminiviridae, a large and diverse group of plant viruses characterized by a small circular single-stranded DNA genome encapsidated in twinned quasi-icosahedral virions. Cultivated tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) is particularly susceptible and is infected by >100 bipartite and monopartite begomoviruses worldwide. In Brazil, 25 tomato-infecting begomoviruses have been...
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