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Grains, trade and war in the multimodal transmission of Rice yellow mottle virus: an historical and phylogeographical retrospective
2024-08-20
Abstract excerpt
Rice yellow mottle virus (RYMV) is a major pathogen of rice in Africa. RYMV has a narrow host range limited to rice and a few related poaceae species. We explore the links between the spread of RYMV in East Africa and rice history since the second half of the 19 th century. The phylogeography of RYMV in East Africa was reconstructed from coat protein gene sequences (ORF4) of 335 isolates sampled over two million...
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- Literature Corpus work
- ebceb048-1bd8-5220-a3af-e98dabba6906
- DOI
- 10.1101/2024.08.20.608750
