| velvet bean severe mosaic virus: a distinct begomovirus species causing severe mosaic in mucuna pruriens (l.) dc. | velvet bean [mucuna pruriens (l.) dc] is one of the most important medicinal plants. it is used to treat many ailments, but is widely used for the treatment especially for parkinson's disease because of the presence of 3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (l: -dopa) in it. it was noticed in last 5 years that the plants in the field showed severe mosaic, downward curling of the leaves, stunting, etc. this is consistently observed over the years in india. the disease was transmitted by whiteflies and by gra ... | 2011 | 21556742 |
| molecular characterization of a new begomovirus infecting a leguminous weed rhynchosia minima in india. | a begomovirus associated with yellow mosaic disease in rhynchosia minima, a common weed was cloned and sequenced. the virus has a bipartite genome, of which dna-a is 2727 nucleotide length, and dna-b 2679 nucleotides, and has a typical old world bipartite begomovirus genome organization. sequence comparison to all other begomovirus sequences available in the database shows the virus isolated from r. minima to be distinct. maximum identity of 84% was seen with an isolate of velvet bean severe mos ... | 2011 | 21318241 |