The non-canonical tomato yellow leaf curl virus recombinant that displaced its parental viruses in Southern Morocco exhibits a high selective advantage in experimental conditions

Belabess Z., Peterschmitt M., Granier M., Tahiri A., Blenzar A., Urbino C.
2016

Recombination events are frequently inferred from the increasing number of sequenced viral genomes, but their impact on natural viral populations has rarely been evidenced. TYLCV-IS76 is a recombinant (Begomovirus,Geminiviridae) between the Israel strain of tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV-IL) and the Spanish strain of tomato yellow leaf curl Sardinia virus (TYLCSV-ES) that was generated most ...

Maladies des plantes