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Ageratum yellow vein virus - AYVV
Additional information at the ICTVdB
and at John Stanley's AYVV webpage.

ssDNA; monopartite
AYVV X74516
Singapore

 

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(1)-(5) Ageratum conyzoides L. Plants in the field exhibiting various symptoms.

 

 



 

 

Ageratum yellow vein disease occurs throughout the Indian subcontinent (Nepal, India, Pakistan), China and parts of Africa. The disease may be associated with distinct virus species at these locations

Ageratum conyzoides

 

Ageratum conyzoides
Asystasia nemorum
Emilia sonchifolia
Oxalis barrelieri
Phaseolus vulgaris 
Phyllanthus debilis
Lycopersicon esculentum  
Nicotiana benthamiana
Synedrella nodiflora
Source of host range data: Tan and Wong 1993.  

 




 

Saunders K, ID Bedford and J Stanley (2002). Adaptation from whitefly to leafhopper transmission of an autonomously-replicating nanovirus-like DNA component associated with Ageratum yellow vein disease. Journal of General Virology 83: 907-913.

Saunders, K., ID Bedford and J Stanley (2001). Pathogenicity of a natural recombinant associated with Ageratum yellow vein disease: implications for begomovirus evolution and disease aetiology. Virology 282: 38-47.

Saunders K, ID Bedford, RW Briddon, PG Markham, SM Wong and J Stanley (2000). A unique virus complex causes Ageratum yellow vein disease. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 97: 6890-6895.

Saunders K and J Stanley (1999). A nanovirus-like DNA component associated with yellow vein disease of Ageratum conyzoides: evidence for interfamilial recombination between plant DNA viruses. Virology 264: 142-152.

Stanley J, K Saunders, MS Pinner and SM Wong (1997). Novel defective interfering DNAs associated with Ageratum yellow vein geminivirus infection of Ageratum conyzoides. Virology 239: 87-96.

Tan PH, SM Wong, M Wu, ID Bedford, K Saunders and J Stanley. (1995). Genome organization of Ageratum yellow vein virus, a monopartite whitefly-transmitted geminivirus isolated from a common weed. Journal of General Virology 76: 2915-2922

Tan HNP and SM Wong. (1993). Journal of Phytopathology 139: 165.

Wong SM, MM Swanson and BD Harrison. (1993) Plant Pathology 42: 137.