A New Begomovirus Species Causing Leaf Curl Disease of Radish in India

A New Begomovirus Species Causing Tomato Leaf Curl Disease in

A New Begomovirus Species Causing Tomato Leaf Curl Disease in Varanasi, India. S. Chakraborty, P. K. Pandey, M. K. Banerjee, and G. Kalloo, Indian Institute of Vegetable Research, 1 Gandhinagar (Naria), P.O. Box 5002, POBHU, Varanasi, 221 005, Uttar Pradesh, India; and C. M. Fauquet, International Laboratory for Tropical and Agricultural Biotechnology, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, 975 ...

Cotton Leaf Curl Disease, an Emerging Whitefly Transmissible Begomovirus Complex

In recent years leaf curl disease of cotton has become a major limiting factor in the production of cotton, which is an important fiber cash crop. In the last two decades or more, leaf curl disease in cotton took on epidemic proportions in Pakistan. In the early 1990’s cotton leaf curl disease (CLCuD) appeared in the bordering parts of India in the states of Rajasthan and Punjab and spread to e...

Characterization of a New World monopartite begomovirus causing leaf curl 1 disease of tomato in Ecuador and Peru reveals a new direction in geminivirus 2 evolution

Characterization of a new world monopartite begomovirus causing leaf curl disease of tomato in Ecuador and Peru reveals a new direction in geminivirus evolution.

All characterized whitefly-transmitted geminiviruses (begomoviruses) with origins in the New World (NW) have bipartite genomes composed of a DNA-A and DNA-B component. Recently, an NW begomovirus lacking a DNA-B component was associated with tomato leaf curl disease (ToLCD) in Peru, and it was named Tomato leaf deformation virus (ToLDeV). Here, we show that isolates of ToLDeV associated with To...

Association of Tomato Leaf Curl New Delhi Virus, Betasatellite, and Alphasatellite with Mosaic Disease of Spine Gourd (Momordica dioica Roxb. Willd) in India

Background: Spine gourd (Momordica dioica Roxb. Willd) is one of the important cucurbitaceous crops grown across the world for vegetable and medicinal purposes. Diseases caused by the DNA viruses are becoming the limiting factors for the production of spine gourd reducing its potential yield. For the commercial cultivation of the spine gourd, propagation material used by most o...