Article
Identification of Three Strains of a Virus Associated with Cassava Plants Affected by Frogskin Disease
2008-12-01
Abstract excerpt
Cassava Frogskin Disease (CFSD) can cause severe damage to cassava roots and is one of the most important diseases of cassava in Latin America. The principal objective of this study was to identify the causal agent of CFSD. Electron microscopy, viral purifications, double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) analysis, cloning, sequencing, rtPCR and hybridizations were carried out to characterize and associate a novel virus with t...
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- Literature Corpus work
- ebbba2dd-2265-5b2e-b216-59b7364df250
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1439-0434.2008.01412.x
