Occurrence of two serotypes of sweet potato chlorotic stunt virus in East Africa and their associated differences in coat protein and HSP70 homologue gene sequences

Plant Pathology

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 718-726

  Alicai, T ^a   Fenby, N S ^b   Gibson, R W ^c   Adipala, E ^d   Vetten, H J ^e   Foster, G D ^b   Seal, S E ^c  

^a Namulonge Agricultural and Animal Production Research Institute Uganda   (Uganda)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

^d MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^e INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chlorotic stunt crinivirus; Coat protein; Monoclonal antibodies; RNA sequence; Sweet potato

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLONE; COAT PROTEIN; GENE SEQUENCING; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; KENYA; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POTATO; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEROTYPE; SWEET POTATO CHLOROTIC STUNT VIRUS; UGANDA; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 0033430922     PISSN: 00320862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3059.1999.00402.x     Document Type: Article

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