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The yellow plague of cereals, barley yellow dwarf virus

Conti, M.

The yellow plague of cereals, barley yellow dwarf virus - 1990 - Printed

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Barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV) is distributed worldwide, and infects most cereals and grasses, it is a phloem-restricted pathogen, causing yellowing, reddening, and brittleness of leaves, dwarfing, and reduction in size and number of ears and grains. BYDV is a luteovirus with small isometric particles containing an ssRNA genome, and is transmitted persistently by more than 20 aphid species. Five virus isolates have been distinguished and divided into two subgroups on the basis of cytopathology and serology. Recent serological evidence also indicates that BYDV isolates are related to other luteoviruses, suggesting that a continuous, overlapping


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Acids
Crops
Grain crops
Luteoviruses
Nucleic acids
Nucleic compounds
Organic acids
Pathogenesis
Plant diseases
Plant viruses
Viruses

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