Abstract
Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) causes huge losses to tomato production worldwide. In July 2011 and July–August 2012, we screened for potential TYLCV hosts in a tomato-growing area in Shandong Province, the core vegetable-producing region in China. PCR detection showed that 5 species of plants, Zinnia elegans, Acalypha australis, Gossypium hirsutum, Abutilon theophrasti, and Nicotiana tabacum, were infected. Full genomic sequences of the new TYLCV isolates were obtained and submitted for sequence analysis. Sequence alignment and similarity analysis showed that they all belonged to the TYLCV-IL strain.
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This research was supported by Grants 201003065 (Special Fund for Agro-scientific Research in the Public Interest), 30871620 (National Natural Science Foundation of China, NSFC), and KN214-ZR2012CM032 (Provincial Natural Science Foundation of Shandong).
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G. Li, L. Zhao have contributed equally to this research.
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Li, G., Zhao, Lm., Wang, X. et al. New natural hosts of Tomato yellow leaf curl virus identified in and near tomato-growing greenhouses in eastern China. J Gen Plant Pathol 80, 449–453 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10327-014-0531-5
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