New insights into mycoviruses and exploration for the biological control of crop fungal diseases

J Xie, D Jiang - Annual Review of Phytopathology, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Mycoviruses are viruses that infect fungi. A growing number of novel mycoviruses have
expanded our knowledge of virology, particularly in taxonomy, ecology, and evolution …

Virus world as an evolutionary network of viruses and capsidless selfish elements

EV Koonin, VV Dolja - Microbiology and Molecular Biology …, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
Viruses were defined as one of the two principal types of organisms in the biosphere,
namely, as capsid-encoding organisms in contrast to ribosome-encoding organisms, ie, all …

Nine viruses from eight lineages exhibiting new evolutionary modes that co-infect a hypovirulent phytopathogenic fungus

F Mu, B Li, S Cheng, J Jia, D Jiang, Y Fu… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Mycoviruses are an important component of the virosphere, but our current knowledge of
their genome organization diversity and evolution remains rudimentary. In this study, the …

Viruses Infecting the Plant Pathogenic Fungus Rhizoctonia solani

AH Abdoulaye, MF Foda, I Kotta-Loizou - Viruses, 2019 - mdpi.com
The cosmopolitan fungus Rhizoctonia solani has a wide host range and is the causal agent
of numerous crop diseases, leading to significant economic losses. To date, no cultivars …

[HTML][HTML] A novel mycovirus closely related to hypoviruses that infects the plant pathogenic fungus Sclerotinia sclerotiorum

J Xie, X Xiao, Y Fu, H Liu, J Cheng, SA Ghabrial, G Li… - Virology, 2011 - Elsevier
Three dsRNA segments, two similarly sized at 9.5 kbp and a third one of approximately 3.6
kbp, were extracted from a hypovirulent strain SZ-150 of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum. The …

Bell pepper endornavirus: molecular and biological properties, and occurrence in the genus Capsicum

R Okada, E Kiyota, S Sabanadzovic… - Journal of General …, 2011 - microbiologyresearch.org
Bell peppers (Capsicum annuum) harbour a large dsRNA virus. The linear genome (14.7
kbp) of two isolates from Japanese and USA bell pepper cultivars were completely …

[HTML][HTML] Novel RNA viruses from the native range of Hymenoscyphus fraxineus, the causal fungal agent of ash dieback

W Shamsi, H Kondo, S Ulrich, D Rigling, S Prospero - Virus research, 2022 - Elsevier
The native Japanese population of the fungus Hymenoscyphus fraxineus, the causal agent
of ash dieback in Europe, was screened for viruses using a high-throughput sequencing …

Endornaviruses: persistent dsRNA viruses with symbiotic properties in diverse eukaryotes

T Fukuhara - Virus Genes, 2019 - Springer
Endornaviruses are unique, persistent, double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) viruses with
symbiotic properties that infect diverse eukaryotes, such as plants, fungi, and oomycetes …

Molecular Characterization of a Novel Endornavirus Conferring Hypovirulence in Rice Sheath Blight Fungus Rhizoctonia solani AG-1 IA Strain GD-2

L Zheng, C Shu, M Zhang, M Yang, E Zhou - Viruses, 2019 - mdpi.com
The complete sequence and genome organization of a novel Endornavirus from the
hypovirulent strain GD-2 of Rhizoctonia solani AG-1 IA, the causal agent of rice sheath …

Two Novel Endornaviruses Co-infecting a Phytophthora Pathogen of Asparagus officinalis Modulate the Developmental Stages and Fungicide Sensitivities of the …

K Uchida, K Sakuta, A Ito, Y Takahashi… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Two novel endornaviruses, Phytophthora endornavirus 2 (PEV2) and Phytophthora
endornavirus 3 (PEV3) were found in isolates of a Phytophthora pathogen of asparagus …