Fulfilling Koch's postulates for beet curly top Iran virus and proposal for consideration of new genus in the family Geminiviridae

Archives of Virology

Volumn 158, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 435-443

  Heydarnejad, Jahangir ^a   Keyvani, Nahid ^a   Razavinejad, Sara ^a   Massumi, Hossain ^a   Varsani, Arvind ^b,c  

^a SHAHID BAHONAR UNIVERSITY OF KERMAN   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA VULGARIS SUBSP. VULGARIS; CIRCULIFER HAEMATOCEPS; GEMINIVIRIDAE; MIRIDAE; SPINACIA OLERACEA;

EID: 84873172972     PISSN: 03048608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00705-012-1485-6     Document Type: Article

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