TY - JOUR
T1 - A novel maize-infecting mastrevirus from La Réunion Island
AU - Pande, Daniel
AU - Kraberger, Simona
AU - Lefeuvre, Pierre
AU - Lett, Jean Michel
AU - Shepherd, Dionne N.
AU - Varsani, Arvind
AU - Martin, Darren P.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was funded by a grant from the National Foundation of Science of South Africa and a University of Cape Town Block Grant awarded to AV. PL is funded by GIS CRVOI through the EmerGe grant (N°PRAO/AIRD/CRVOI/08/03).
PY - 2012/8
Y1 - 2012/8
N2 - Despite extensive sampling, only one virus belonging to the genus Mastrevirus of the family Geminiviridae, maize streak virus (MSV), has until now been detected in maize with maize streak disease (MSD) symptoms. Here, we report for the first time a second, highly divergent, mastrevirus isolated from two maize plants displaying characteristic MSD-like symptoms, sampled on the South-west Indian Ocean Island, La Réunion. The two isolates shared <57 % genome-wide identity with all other known mastreviruses. We propose calling the new species Maize streak Réunion virus.
AB - Despite extensive sampling, only one virus belonging to the genus Mastrevirus of the family Geminiviridae, maize streak virus (MSV), has until now been detected in maize with maize streak disease (MSD) symptoms. Here, we report for the first time a second, highly divergent, mastrevirus isolated from two maize plants displaying characteristic MSD-like symptoms, sampled on the South-west Indian Ocean Island, La Réunion. The two isolates shared <57 % genome-wide identity with all other known mastreviruses. We propose calling the new species Maize streak Réunion virus.
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U2 - 10.1007/s00705-012-1314-y
DO - 10.1007/s00705-012-1314-y
M3 - Article
C2 - 22543634
AN - SCOPUS:84864420861
SN - 0304-8608
VL - 157
SP - 1617
EP - 1621
JO - Archives of virology
JF - Archives of virology
IS - 8
ER -