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The Current Status of Luteovirus and Polerovirus Research in India

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The family Luteoviridae comprises of three genera Luteovirus, Enamovirus and Polerovirus, of which, only two genera Luteovirus and Polerovirus are known in India. Though luteovirus and polerovirus infects many crops throughout the world, only a few have been documented in India. Luteoviruses were reported in field crops like barley (barley yellow dwarf virus) and chickpea (chickpea stunt virus), while polerovirus was recorded from potato, jute (potato leaf roll virus [PLRV]) sugarcane (sugarcane yellow leaf virus [SCYLV]) and cotton (cotton leaf roll dwarf virus) crops from India. SCYLV and PLRV are the most important poleroviruses as they are of serious constraints in all the sugarcane and potato growing states of India. SCYLV infection causes 39–43% reductions in plant growth and 30–34% loss in yield in sugarcane. The virus is mainly transmitted through infected seed canes. The secondary spread of the virus in the field is by the aphid vectors. PLRV is reported to cause 50–60% yield losses in potato crop and this virus is tuber borne and transmitted mainly by aphid vectors in a circulative non-propagative manner. The complete genome sequences SCYLV and PLRV isolates from sugarcane and potato are available from India. This book chapter deals with an uptodate information available on distribution, biological properties, identification, serological relationships, genetic diversity and transmission of the luteoviruses and poleroviruses reported on different crops from India.

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  3. ICAR-Central Potato Research Institute, Shimla, 171001, India

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  4. Advanced Centre for Plant Virology, Division of Plant Pathology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, 110012, India

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Viswanathan, R., Nithya, K., Parameswari, B., Jeevalatha, A., Rao, G.P. (2017). The Current Status of Luteovirus and Polerovirus Research in India. In: Mandal, B., Rao, G., Baranwal, V., Jain, R. (eds) A Century of Plant Virology in India. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5672-7_12

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