Watermelon mosaic virus

Watermelon mosaic virus
Ring spots on watermelon caused by Watermelon mosaic virus
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(unranked): Virus
Realm: Riboviria
Kingdom: Orthornavirae
Phylum: Pisuviricota
Class: Stelpaviricetes
Order: Patatavirales
Family: Potyviridae
Genus: Potyvirus
Species:
Watermelon mosaic virus

Watermelon mosaic virus (WMV) also known as Marrow mosaic virus (Raychaudhuri and Varma, 1975; Varma, 1988), Melon mosaic virus (Iwaki et al., 1984; Komuro, 1962), and until recently Watermelon mosaic virus type 2 (WMV-2),[1] is a plant pathogenic virus[2] that causes viral infection (sometimes referred to as watermelon Mosaic disease) in many different plants. The virus itself is referred to as Watermelon Mosaic Virus II or WMV-2 and is an isolate of the U.S. WMV-2 is a ssRNA positive strand virus that is part of the Potyviridae or Potyvirus clade. Like all RNA viruses, it contains a protein capsid which protects the inner viral RNA.[3] First described on squash in Florida, WMV arose from a unique recombination of genetic material contributed by Soybean mosaic virus (SMV) and Bean common mosaic virus (BCMV) along with Peanut Stripe virus (PSV).[4]

  1. ^ "Watermelon mosaic 2 potyvirus". Plant Viruses Online. University of Idaho.
  2. ^ "About Plant Viruses". Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
  3. ^ https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/P18478. Archived 2016-10-10 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Ali, Asad. "Watermelon mosaic virus". Retrieved 23 October 2012.