A survey was performed on a Vitis cultivar collection in Stellenbosch, South Africa. Metaviromes were generated for each cultivar, using an RNAtag-seq workflow. Analysis of assembled contigs indicated the presence of two putatively novel members of the genus Vitivirus, provisionally named "grapevine virus N" (GVN) and "grapevine virus O" (GVO).
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