| Soil-borne wheat mosaic virus | |
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Virus classification 
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| (unranked): | Virus |
| Realm: | Riboviria |
| Kingdom: | Orthornavirae |
| Phylum: | Kitrinoviricota |
| Class: | Alsuviricetes |
| Order: | Martellivirales |
| Family: | Virgaviridae |
| Genus: | Furovirus |
| Species: | Soil-borne wheat mosaic virus
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Soil-borne wheat mosaic virus is a rod-shaped plant pathogen that can cause severe stunting and mosaic in susceptible wheat, barley and rye cultivars.[1] The disease has often been misdiagnosed as a nutritional problem, but this has actually allowed in part for the fortuitous visual selection by breeding programs of resistant genotypes. Soil-borne wheat mosaic virus is part of the genus Furovirus. Members of this genus are characterized by rigid rod-shaped particles and positive sense RNA genomes consisting of two molecules that are packaged into separate particles that code for either replication, mobility, structure or defense against the host.[2] The virus is spread by a fungal-like protist, Polymyxa graminis, whose asexual secondary and sexual primary cycles help the virus spread. The disease produces secondary symptoms from the root cell infection. The disease is a serious contributor to loss in crop yield.[3]
- ^ "Soilborne Mosaic and Yellow Mosaic (Spindle Streak Mosaic) of Winter Wheat" (PDF). Department of Crop Sciences University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. October 1998. Retrieved 7 January 2014.
- ^ Te, Jeannie; Ulrich Melcher; Amanda Howard; Jeanmarie Verchot-Lubicz (2005). "Soilborne wheat mosaic virus (SBWMV) 19K protein belongs to a class of cysteine rich proteins that suppress RNA silencing". Virology Journal. 2 (1): 18. doi:10.1186/1743-422X-2-18. ISSN 1743-422X. PMC 555535. PMID 15740624.
- ^ Cadle-Davidson, L.; S. M. Gray (2006). "Soil-borne wheat mosaic virus". The Plant Health Instructor. doi:10.1094/PHI-I-2006-0424-01. ISSN 1935-9411. S2CID 83661170.
