| intergeneric recombination between a new, spinach-infecting curtovirus and a new geminivirus belonging to the genus becurtovirus: first new world exemplar. | a novel curtovirus, spinach severe curly top virus (ssctv), was associated with symptomatic spinach plants collected from a commercial field in south-central arizona during 2009. in addition, a second viral molecule of about 2.9 kb from the same spinach plants was amplified, cloned and sequenced. the latter isolate, herein named spinach curly top arizona virus (sctav), was found to share 77 % pairwise sequence identity with beet curly top iran virus (bctiv), a leafhopper-transmitted geminivirus ... | 2013 | 23708296 |