| a novel putative partitivirus of the saprotrophic fungus heterobasidion ecrustosum infects pathogenic species of the heterobasidion annosum complex. | we characterized the bisegmented genome of a putative double-stranded (ds) rna virus from a chinese isolate of the fungus heterobasidion ecrustosum, a member of the heterobasidion insulare species complex. the larger genomic segment of 1885bp encoded a putative rna dependent rna polymerase (rdrp, 585aa), and the smaller one for a putative coat protein of 521aa (1826bp). phylogenetic analyses suggest that this novel virus species, named as 'heterobasidion rna virus 3 from h. ecrustosum, strain 1' ... | 2010 | 21036340 |