Molecular biodiversity of cassava begomoviruses in Tanzania: Evolution of cassava geminiviruses in Africa and evidence for East Africa being a center of diversity of cassava geminiviruses

Virology Journal

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Ndunguru, J ^a,b   Legg, J P ^c   Aveling, T A S ^d   Thompson, G ^e   Fauquet, C M ^b  

^a Plant Protection Division   (Tanzania)

^b DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE   (Uganda)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^e ARC Institute for Industrial Crops   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CASSAVA; FOOD INDUSTRY; GEMINIVIRUS; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOSAIC VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT VIRUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TANZANIA; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIRAL PLANT DISEASE; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN;

BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DNA, VIRAL; GEMINIVIRIDAE; GENES, VIRAL; GENETIC VARIATION; MANIHOT; TANZANIA;

AFRICAN CASSAVA MOSAIC VIRUS; EAST AFRICAN CASSAVA MOSAIC CAMEROON VIRUS; EAST AFRICAN CASSAVA MOSAIC VIRUS; MANIHOT ESCULENTA;

EID: 19444372534     PISSN: 1743422X     EISSN: 1743422X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1743-422X-2-21     Document Type: Article

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