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A novel maize-infecting mastrevirus from La Réunion Island

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Despite extensive sampling, only one virus belonging to the genus Mastrevirus of the family Geminiviridae, maize streak virus (MSV), has until now been detected in maize with maize streak disease (MSD) symptoms. Here, we report for the first time a second, highly divergent, mastrevirus isolated from two maize plants displaying characteristic MSD-like symptoms, sampled on the South-west Indian Ocean Island, La Réunion. The two isolates shared <57 % genome-wide identity with all other known mastreviruses. We propose calling the new species Maize streak Réunion virus.

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This work was funded by a grant from the National Foundation of Science of South Africa and a University of Cape Town Block Grant awarded to AV. PL is funded by GIS CRVOI through the EmerGe grant (N°PRAO/AIRD/CRVOI/08/03).

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  1. Department of Botany and Horticulture, Maseno University, P.O. Box 333, Maseno, Kenya

    Daniel Pande

  2. School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, 8140, New Zealand

    Simona Kraberger & Arvind Varsani

  3. CIRAD, UMR 53 PVBMT CIRAD-Université de la Réunion, Pôle de Protection des Plantes, Ligne Paradis, 97410, Saint Pierre, La Réunion, France

    Pierre Lefeuvre & Jean-Michel Lett

  4. Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town, 7701, South Africa

    Dionne N. Shepherd

  5. Biomolecular Interaction Centre, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, 8140, New Zealand

    Arvind Varsani

  6. Electron Microscope Unit, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town, 7701, South Africa

    Arvind Varsani

  7. Computational Biology Group, Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Observatory, Cape Town, 7925, South Africa

    Darren P. Martin

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GenBank accession numbers: MSRV-[RE-StP-PR52-2009]: JQ624879. MSRV-[RE-StP-PR50-2009]: JQ624880

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Pande, D., Kraberger, S., Lefeuvre, P. et al. A novel maize-infecting mastrevirus from La Réunion Island. Arch Virol 157, 1617–1621 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00705-012-1314-y

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