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Indian cassava mosaic virus – (ICMV)

ssDNA; bipartite, evolved from monopartite (Saunders and others 2002).  

ICMV Z24758
ICMV-Mah (Maharashtra state) AJ314739

The following isolates have not been recognized as strains of this species:
ICMV-Raj-FI (Rajasthan, Field Isolate) AF075593
ICMV-Tri (Trivandrum, Kerala) AF423180
India

 

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(1) Cassava [Manihot esculenta Crantz]
(2) Cassava with healthy leaf on right
(3) Tobacco [Nicotiana benthamiana Domin.]

 

* India
 

* Manihot esculenta 

 

 

* Manihot esculenta
* Nicotiana benthamiana
* N. clevlandii
* N. glutinosa 


Brown JK, AM Idris, I Torres-Jerez, GK Banks and SD Wyatt. (2001). The core region of the coat protein gene is highly useful for establishing the provisional identification and classification of begomoviruses. Archives of Virology 146: 1581-1598.

Hong,Y.G., Robinson,D.J. and Harrison,B.D. (1993). Nucleotide sequence evidence for the occurrence of three distinct whitefly-transmitted geminiviruses in cassava. Journal of General Virology 74: 2437-2443.

Maruthi MN, J Colvin. and SE Seal. (2001). Vector transmission, symptom assessment and coat protein gene sequences of Cassava mosaic geminivirus isolates. Unpublished.

Saunders K, N Salim, VR Mali, VG Malathi, R Briddon, PG Markham and J Stanley. (2002). Characterisation of Sri Lankan cassava mosaic virus and Indian cassava mosaic virus: evidence for acquisition of a DNA B component by a monopartite begomovirus. Virology 293: 63-74.