Publications by authors named "Petra J van Bekkum"
Article Synopsis
- In July 2020, soybean fields in Flevoland, The Netherlands, exhibited symptoms typical of Soybean Mosaic Virus (SMV), with disease incidence ranging from 5-50%, showing both small and large patches of infected plants.
- Leaf samples from two cultivars, Green Shell and Summer Shell, were collected and tested using RT-PCR methods that confirmed the presence of SMV in all samples.
- Further analysis through sequencing and assembly identified two SMV contigs of nearly 9,900 nucleotides in length for both cultivars, with a high percentage of reads mapping to the SMV reference sequence, confirming the infection with no other viruses detected.
Members of the genus Torradovirus (family Secoviridae, type species Tomato torrado virus, ToTV) are spherical plant viruses transmitted by the whitefly species Trialeurodes vaporariorum and Bemisia tabaci. Knowledge on the mode of vector transmission is lacking for torradoviruses. Here, the mode of transmission was determined for Tomato marchitez virus (ToMarV).
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