A novel botybirnavirus with a unique satellite dsRNA causes latent infection in Didymella theifolia isolated from tea plants

ABSTRACT The unique, recently discovered fungus Didymella theifolia specifically infects local varieties of tea plant Camellia sinensis in China, and therefore, the characterization of its mycoviruses is important. Three double-stranded (ds) RNAs (1, 2, and 3, with 6,338, 5,910, and 727 bp in size,...

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Main Authors: Liangchao Ye, Xinyu Shi, Yunqiang He, Jiao Chen, Qingeng Xu, Karim Shafik, Lanning Fu, Yumeng Yin, Ioly Kotta-Loizou, Wenxing Xu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2023-12-01
Series:Microbiology Spectrum
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Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.00033-23