| a totivirus infecting the mutualistic fungal endophyte epichloë festucae. | epichloë festucae (ascomycota) infects the grass festuca rubra. infected plants may be more resistant to herbivores and obtain other benefits. the 5109bp dsrna genome of a virus which infects e. festucae was sequenced, and its incidence in natural populations and transmission were studied. the viral genome has characteristics of the family totiviridae. its two orfs are overlapped by four nucleotides; orf1 codes a 765 amino acid putative coat protein (cp); orf2 is in a -1 frameshift with respect ... | 2007 | 17081641 |