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Comparison of Colombian and Costa Rican strains of rice hoja blanca tenuivirus.
Virus genes - 1 Jan 1997
de Miranda J R, Ramirez B C, Muñoz M, Lozano I, Wu R, Haenni A L, Espinoza A M, Calvert L A
Abstract excerpt
The sequences of RNA-3 and RNA-4 of rice hoja blanca tenuivirus isolates from Colombia and from Costa Rica were determined and analyzed. These isolates were 98.9% and 98.6% identical in the coding and non-coding regions of RNA-3, and 96.9 and 91.5% identical in the coding and non-coding regions of RNA-4, and are therefore strains of the same virus. There is about three times as much variation between isolates...
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