Diversity and recombination analysis of Cotton leaf curl Multan virus: a highly emerging begomovirus in northern India.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cotton leaf curl disease (CLCuD), caused by begomoviruses in association with satellite molecules, is a major threat to cotton production causing enormous losses to cotton crop in most of the cotton growing countries including Indian subcontinent. In this study, isolates of begomovirus and satellite molecules associated with CLCuD were collected from North India (Haryana, New Delhi). They were amplified employing rolling circle replication mechanism, cloned, sequenced and, their phylogenetic and recombination analysis was performed.

Results

The five Cotton leaf curl Multan virus (CLCuMuV) isolates investigated in this study showed monopartite organization of the genome typical of Old World begomoviruses. Nucleotide sequence analyses assigned them as the strains of

SUBMITTER: Qadir R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6451280 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature