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Molecular characterization of a new begomovirus and divergent alphasatellite from tomato in Cameroon

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Acknowledgments

This research was jointly supported by several foundations and organizations to which we express our sincere gratitude: International Foundation of Science, Stockholm, Sweden, through a grant to W.N. Leke; Rothamsted International, through the Rothamsted International African Fellows programme; The Swedish Institute; USAID, through the IPM-CRSP Insect-Transmitted Virus Global Themes project; The Royal Physiographic Society in Lund, Sweden. W.N. Leke completed this study as part of his Ph.D. studies. We sincerely thank the anonymous referees for their useful comments and suggestions.

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  1. Institute of Agricultural Research for Development (IRAD), Bambui, P.O. Box 80, Bamenda, Cameroon

    W. N. Leke

  2. Department of Plant Biology and Forest Genetics, Uppsala Biocenter SLU, P.O. Box 7080, 750 07, Uppsala, Sweden

    W. N. Leke & A. Kvarnheden

  3. Institute of Agricultural Research for Development (IRAD), Ekona, P.O. Box 25, Buea, Cameroon

    E. B. Ngane

  4. University of Buea, Buea, South West Region, Cameroon

    V. P. K. Titanji

  5. School of Plant Sciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA

    J. K. Brown

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Leke, W.N., Kvarnheden, A., Ngane, E.B. et al. Molecular characterization of a new begomovirus and divergent alphasatellite from tomato in Cameroon. Arch Virol 156, 925–928 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00705-011-0957-4

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