Tomato leaf curl China virus is a virus that infects tomato plants in China and was first described in 2011. The virus infects tomatoes in the Chinese province of Guangxi, and it is transmitted by the whitefly.[1] The current EPPO name is TOLCCV, but its original name in the literature was ToLCCNV.[2]
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Virus classification ![]() | |
(unranked): | Virus |
Realm: | Monodnaviria |
Kingdom: | Shotokuvirae |
Phylum: | Cressdnaviricota |
Class: | Repensiviricetes |
Order: | Geplafuvirales |
Family: | Geminiviridae |
Genus: | Begomovirus |
Species: | Tomato leaf curl China virus
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It belongs to the genus Begomovirus, which also contains the tomato yellow leaf curl China virus.[3]
References
edit- ^ Yang, Xiuling; Guo, Wei; Ma, Xinying; An, Qianli; Zhou, Xueping (2011). "Molecular Characterization of Tomato Leaf Curl China Virus, Infecting Tomato Plants in China, and Functional Analyses of Its Associated Betasatellite". Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 77 (9): 3092–3101. Bibcode:2011ApEnM..77.3092Y. doi:10.1128/AEM.00017-11. PMC 3126389. PMID 21378048.
A novel tomato-infecting begomovirus from Guangxi province, China, was identified and characterized
- ^ "Tomato leaf curl China virus (TOLCCV)[Overview]| EPPO Global Database".
- ^ Cui, Xiaofeng; Tao, Xiaorong; Xie, Yan; Fauquet, Claude M.; Zhou, Xueping (December 2004). "A DNAβ Associated with Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl China Virus Is Required for Symptom Induction". Journal of Virology. 78 (24): 13966–13974. doi:10.1128/JVI.78.24.13966-13974.2004. PMC 533896. PMID 15564504.