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Loeza-Kuk,Emiliano; Ochoa-Martínez,Daniel L.; Mora-Aguilera,Gustavo; Rivas-Valencia,Patricia; Gutiérrez-Espinosa,M. Alejandra; Cintra de Jesús Junior,Waldir; Villegas-Monter,Ángel; Arno-Wulff,Nelson; Perez-Molphe-Balch,Eugenio. |
Individuals of Toxoptera citricida (Kirkaldy) and Aphis spiraecola (Patch) collected in 16 commercial citrus orchards of the São Paulo and Minas Gerais States of Brazil were analyzed for virus presence. Orchards of Minas Gerais were selected because citrus trees exhibit symptoms of citrus sudden death (CSD) and in São Paulo due the presence of severe strains of Citrus tristeza virus (CTV), in order to detect genomic sequences of any of these strains that could be associated to CSD. Samples made up of 20 aphids from the localities of Comendador Gomes, Frutal, Prata and Uberlândia, in the State of Minas Gerais, a CSD associated virus (CSDaV) was often found through nested RT-PCR; in samples from São Paulo, none showed positive for the same primers. With the... |
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Aphids; Virus detection; Citrus tristeza virus; Citrus sudden death-associated virus. |
Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1405-31952008000600007 |
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