Fuhong Gao, Rex Frimpong Anane, Zhengling Liu, Shaomei Zi, Shangyun Li, Zefen Yang, Bifan Chu, Xingquan Chen, Zeli Chen, Mingfu Zhao
Fusarium diseases include wilts, blights, rots, and cankers of many horticultural, field, ornamental, and forest crops in both agricultural and natural ecosystems, and they significantly hinder food plant production. Here, we describe a novel mycovirus, tentatively designated as "Fusarium fusarivirus 1" (FuFV1), which was discovered in an isolate of the phytopathogenic fungus Fusarium sp. FuFV1 has a positive-sense single-stranded RNA (+ssRNA) genome of 6,391 nucleotides (nt) containing three open reading frames (ORFs)...
September 8, 2023: Archives of Virology