Acceptance of an official classification for the family Papillomaviridae based purely on DNA
sequence relatedness, was achieved as late as 2003. The rate of isolation and …

One-hundred and fourteen virus species are transmitted by whiteflies (family Aleyrodidae).
Bemisia tabaci transmits 111 of these species while Trialeurodes vaporariorum and T …

Begomoviruses are numerous and geographically widespread viruses that cause
devastating diseases in many crops. Monopartite begomoviruses are frequently associated …

Geminiviruses form the second largest family of plant viruses, the Geminiviridae,
represented by four genera: Mastrevirus, Curtovirus, Topocuvirus and Begomovirus. During …

Geminivirus taxonomy and nomenclature is growing in complexity with the number of
genomic sequences deposited in sequence databases. Taxonomic and nomenclatural …

A phylogenetic analysis of the optimised nucleotide (nt) alignment of the entire ORFs of a
representative of each fully-sequenced species in the family Potyviridae provided strong …

Geminiviruses are small DNA viruses that use plant replication machinery to amplify their
genomes. Microarray analysis of the Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) transcriptome in …

The rapid geographical expansion of the cassava mosaic disease (CMD) pandemic, caused
by cassava mosaic geminiviruses, has devastated cassava crops in 12 countries of East and …

The new plant virus family Flexiviridae is described. The family is named because its
members have flexuous virions and it includes the existing genera Allexivirus, Capillovirus …

Small circular single-stranded DNA satellites have recently been isolated from plants
infected with whitefly-transmitted monopartite begomoviruses. The satellites, named DNA β …