Cucurbit leaf curl virus

Cucurbit leaf curl virus – (CuLCuV)

ssDNA; bipartite

CuLCuV-AZ (Arizona) AF256200
CuLCuV (crumple) AF224760

Southwestern USA and Northern Mexico

(1) Pumpkin [Cucurbita maximus Duschnes 'Big Max']
(2) Zucchini [C. pepo L. ‘Fordhook Zucchini’]

* Southwestern USA: Arizona, California, Texas
* Northern Mexico: Coahuilla.

* Citrullis lanatus
* C. melo
* C. sativus
* Cucurbita maximus
* C. pepo

* Citrullis lanatus    'Charleston Grey’
* Cucumis melo ‘Hales Best    Jumbo’
* C. pepo
* C. sativus ‘Bush    Champion’
* Cucurbita maximus ‘Big    Max’
* C. pepo ‘Fordhook    Zucchini’
* Nicotiana tabacum   ' Samsun’
* Phaseolus vulgaris ‘Red    Kidney’

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Brown JK, AM Idris, C Alteri and DC Stenger. (2002). Emergence of a new cucurbit-infecting begomovirus species capable of forming viable reassortants with related viruses in the Squash leaf curl virus cluster. Phytopathology 92: 734-742.

Guzman P, MR Sudarshana, YS Seo, MR Rojas, E Natwick, T Turini, K Mayberry and RL Gilbertson. (2000). A new bipartite geminivirus causing cucurbit leaf curl and crumpling symptoms in the Imperial Valley of California. Plant Disease 84: 488.

Hernandez NA, MR Sudarshana, P Guzman and RL Gilbertson. (2000). Generation and characterization of infectious clones of Cucurbit leaf crumple begomovirus, a new bipartite geminivirus from the Imperial Valley of California. Phytopathology 90: S35.