A melting pot of Old World begomoviruses and their satellites infecting a collection of Gossypium species in Pakistan.

CLCuD in southern Asia is caused by a complex of multiple begomoviruses (whitefly transmitted, single-stranded [ss]DNA viruses) in association with a specific ssDNA satellite; Cotton leaf curl Multan betasatellite (CLCuMuB). A further single ssDNA molecule, for which the collective name alphasatelli...

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Main Authors: Muhammad Shah Nawaz-ul-Rehman, Rob W Briddon, Claude M Fauquet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3416816?pdf=render