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Characteristics of Tungrovirus Occurring in India

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The research on rice tungro bacilliform virus, the only species in the genus Tungrovirus (family Caulimoviridae), has a long history in India because of the association of the virus with rice tungro disease, an important rice disease prevalent in the eastern coastal rice growing regions. This research encompasses the transmission characteristics of the vector, characterization of strains, resistance sources, molecular properties of the virus, transgenic resistance and the use of virus-derived gene vector for plant biotechnology. This chapter gives a glimpse of the above research conducted to characterise the RTBV isolates occurring in India.

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Research at IIRR is funded by Indian Council for Agricultural Research and Department of Biotechnology, Government of India (DBT) and at UDSC from DBT and University of Delhi.

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  1. Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, 110021, India

    Shweta Sharma, Gaurav Kumar & Indranil Dasgupta

  2. Indian Institute of Rice Research (Indian Council for Agricultural Research), Rajendranagar, Hyderabad, 500030, India

    Satyendra Mangrauthia, C. N. Neeraja & D. Krishnaveni

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Sharma, S., Kumar, G., Mangrauthia, S., Neeraja, C.N., Krishnaveni, D., Dasgupta, I. (2017). Characteristics of Tungrovirus Occurring 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_21

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