Metatranscriptomic analysis reveals rich mycoviral diversity in three major fungal pathogens of rice

Z He, X Huang, Y Fan, M Yang, E Zhou - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
In recent years, three major fungal diseases of rice, ie, rice blast, rice false smut, and rice-
sheath blight, have caused serious worldwide rice-yield reductions and are threatening …

[HTML][HTML] Revisiting the amalgaviral landscapes in plant transcriptomes expands the host range of plant amalgaviruses

VK Sidharthan, V Rajeswari, G Vanamala… - Virology, 2022 - Elsevier
Plant amalgaviruses are monopartite, double-stranded RNA viruses, capable of vertical
transmission through seeds. An attempt to revisit plant transcriptome-assembled contigs for …

Analysis of public domain plant transcriptomes expands the phylogenetic diversity of the family Secoviridae

VK Sidharthan, V Rajeswari, VK Baranwal - Virus Genes, 2022 - Springer
Secoviruses are mono-/bipartite plant-infecting, icosahedral RNA viruses that incite
economically important diseases in plants. In the present study, nine secoviruses tentatively …

[HTML][HTML] Broadening the host range and genetic diversity of waikaviruses

VK Sidharthan, V Rajeswari, VK Baranwal - Virology, 2023 - Elsevier
Waikaviruses are monopartite, positive sense, single-stranded RNA viruses that cause
economically important plant diseases. Despite their importance, waikaviruses are poorly …

Identification of a Novel Polerovirus in Cocoa (Theobroma cacao) Germplasm and Development of Molecular Methods for Use in Diagnostics

I Ullah, M Kamran, JM Dunwell - Pathogens, 2023 - mdpi.com
The cocoa crop (Theobroma cacao L.) is known to be a host for several badnaviruses, some
of which cause severe disease, while others are asymptomatic. Recently, the first …

Identification of a novel recombinant polerovirus and other emergent viruses and tombusvirus-like associated RNA species associated with carrot motley dwarf …

A Erickson, AM Ter Horst, CR Carlson… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Carrot motley dwarf (CMD) is a viral disease complex caused by co-infection of the
polerovirus carrot red leaf virus with the umbraviruses carrot mottle virus or carrot mottle …

Identification of a putative novel cholivirus in the transcriptome of Gymnema sylvestre R. Br

VK Sidharthan, G Vanamala, V Rajeswari… - Archives of …, 2023 - Springer
Gymnema sylvestre is a tropical climber species that is widely used in traditional medicine
since ages. In the present study, the transcriptome datasets of G. sylvestre available in …

Three-fold expansion of the genetic diversity of blunerviruses through plant (meta) transcriptome data-mining

TS Reddy, VK Sidharthan - Virology, 2024 - Elsevier
Kitaviruses are plant-infecting, non-systemic disease-causing viruses with multipartite single-
stranded RNA genomes. Despite their importance, knowledge on kitaviruses is limited in …

Probing of plant transcriptomes reveals the hidden genetic diversity of the family Secoviridae

VK Sidharthan, V Reddy, G Kiran, V Rajeswari… - Archives of …, 2024 - Springer
Secoviruses are single-stranded RNA viruses that infect plants. In the present study, we
identified 61 putative novel secoviral genomes in various plant species by mining publicly …

Complete nucleotide sequence of hemisteptia virus A, a polero-like virus

D Igori, S Lim, SE Kim, AY Shin, SY Kwon, JS Moon - Archives of Virology, 2022 - Springer
The complete genomic nucleotide sequence of hemisteptia virus A (HemVA) from a
Hemisteptia lyrata Bunge plant in South Korea was identified by high-throughput …