Cassava brown streak disease: A threat to food security in Africa

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 956-968

  Patil, Basavaprabhu L ^a   Legg, James P ^b   Kanju, Edward ^b   Fauquet, Claude M ^c  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE ON PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b International Institute of Tropical Agriculture   (Tanzania)

^c INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR TROPICAL AGRICULTURE CIAT   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA;

AFRICA; BREEDING; CASSAVA; CASSAVA BROWN STREAK DISEASE; CASSAVA BROWN STREAK VIRUS; CENTRAL AFRICA; CULTIVAR; FOOD SECURITY; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME ANALYSIS; HOST RANGE; NONHUMAN; POTYVIRIDAE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; UNITED STATES; VEGETABLE BREEDING; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS RESISTANCE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; CATERING SERVICE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MANIHOT; PLANT DISEASE; VIROLOGY;

CASSAVA BROWN STREAK VIRUS; MANIHOT ESCULENTA; POTYVIRIDAE;

AFRICA, CENTRAL; AFRICA, EASTERN; AFRICA, WESTERN; FOOD SUPPLY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MANIHOT; PLANT DISEASES; POTYVIRIDAE;

EID: 84930163930     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: 14652099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.000014     Document Type: Review

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