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Genetic variability of the movement and coat protein genes of Grapevine fanleaf virus isolates from Italy

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Grapevine fanleaf virus (GFLV), a nematode-transmitted virus belonging to the genus Nepovirus, is the major pathogen responsible for fanleaf degeneration, one of the most widespread and damaging viral diseases of grapevine. The virus is characterized by a genome constituted by two single positive sense RNAs (RNA1 and RNA2), coding for two polyproteins. Here we investigated the genetic variability of the movement and coat protein genes (2BMP and 2CCP) of Italian GFLV isolates by sequencing analyses. The presence of high molecular heterogeneity between our isolates suggests that GFLV comprises a family of sequence variants.

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  1. Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Patologia Vegetale, Alma Mater Studiorum Università degli Studi di Bologna, Viale G. Fanin 40, 40127, Bologna, Italy

    Federica Terlizzi, Annamaria Pisi, Roberta Beber, Rino Credi & Claudio Ratti

  2. Departamento de Sanidad Vegetal, Facultad de Ciencias Agronómicas, Universidad de Chile, 1004, Santiago, Chile

    Nicola Fiore & Alan Zamorano

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Terlizzi, F., Pisi, A., Beber, R. et al. Genetic variability of the movement and coat protein genes of Grapevine fanleaf virus isolates from Italy. J Gen Plant Pathol 81, 63–67 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10327-014-0554-y

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