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Characterization and detection of maize-associated pteridovirus (MaPV), infecting maize (Zea mays) in the Arusha region of Tanzania

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dc.creator Read, David
dc.creator Featherston, Jonathan
dc.creator Rees, David
dc.creator Thompson, Genevieve
dc.creator Roberts, Ronel
dc.creator Flett, Bradley
dc.creator Mashingaidze, Kingstone
dc.creator Pietersen, Gerhard
dc.creator Kiula, Barnabas
dc.creator Kullaya, Alois
dc.creator Mbega, Ernest
dc.date 2019-08-06T08:26:54Z
dc.date 2019-08-06T08:26:54Z
dc.date 2019-03-01
dc.date.accessioned 2022-10-25T09:20:42Z
dc.date.available 2022-10-25T09:20:42Z
dc.identifier 1573-8469
dc.identifier https://doi.org/10.1007/s10658-019-01703-4
dc.identifier http://dspace.nm-aist.ac.tz/handle/123456789/397
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/95166
dc.description Research Article published by Springer Nature
dc.description Maize lethal necrosis disease (MLND) is currently threatening maize production in a large area of East Africa. Synergistic infections of Maize chlorotic mottle virus (MCMV) and members of the Potyviridae family are known to elicit MLND. Metaviromics studies of plant viruses have allowed for the discovery of novel viral diversity, with a number of these viruses having recently been shown to co-occur with MCMV and Potyviruses. However, their contribution to the expression of disease symptoms still requires extensive research. In a survey for viruses associated with maize in Tanzania, 35 samples were sequenced using an RNA-tag-seq metaviromics approach. Bioinformatic analysis of assembled reads yielded two contigs (5.8 and 2.7 kbp) that shared sequence homology with RNA1 and RNA2 of the dsRNA Japanese holly fern mottle virus (JHFMoV) (genus: Pteridovirus) from a single sample collected in the Arusha region. RNA1 encodes for a polyprotein product containing putative viral methyltransferase, helicase and polymerase domains. RNA2 contains three open reading frames (ORFs), one of which encodes for a putative movement protein, while the remaining two encode for putative products with no known function. The tentative name Maize-associated pteridovirus (MaPV) has been proposed for the virus in this study.
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dc.language en
dc.publisher Springer Nature
dc.subject Maize lethal necrosis disease
dc.subject Illumina sequencing
dc.title Characterization and detection of maize-associated pteridovirus (MaPV), infecting maize (Zea mays) in the Arusha region of Tanzania
dc.type Article


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