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SUBMITTER: Braidwood L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6934591 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Braidwood Luke L Müller Sebastian Y SY Baulcombe David D
Scientific reports 20191227 1
Sugarcane mosaic virus (SCMV) is distributed worldwide and infects three major crops: sugarcane, maize, and sorghum. The impact of SCMV is increased by its interaction with Maize chlorotic mottle virus which causes the synergistic maize disease maize lethal necrosis. Here, we characterised maize lethal necrosis-infected maize from multiple sites in East Africa, and found that SCMV was present in all thirty samples. This distribution pattern indicates that SCMV is a major partner virus in the Eas ...[more]