Umbravirus

Umbravirus
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(unranked): Virus
Realm: Riboviria
Kingdom: Orthornavirae
Phylum: Kitrinoviricota
Class: Tolucaviricetes
Order: Tolivirales
Family: Tombusviridae
Subfamily: Calvusvirinae
Genus: Umbravirus

Umbravirus is a genus of plant viruses assigned to the family Tombusviridae. The genus has 11 species.

Transmission may be by aphids or mechanical inoculation. The genome is a linear, positive-sense, single-stranded RNA, 4200–6900 nucleotides in length.[1]

  1. ^ Index of Viruses—Umbravirus (2006). In: ICTVdB—The Universal Virus Database, version 4. Büchan-Osmond, C (Ed), Columbia University, New York, USA.