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Tobacco rattle tobravirus: variation among strains and detection by cDNA probes 1
Author(s) -
ROBINSON D. J.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
eppo bulletin
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.327
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1365-2338
pISSN - 0250-8052
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2338.1989.tb00441.x
Subject(s) - serology , complementary dna , biology , antiserum , coat protein , nucleic acid , recombinant dna , virology , antigen , antibody , genetics , gene , rna
Because of their extreme antigenic variability, only a small proportion of tobacco rattle tobravirus isolates will be detected in serological tests with a single antiserum. Moreover, serological tests will not detect NM‐type isolates that do not produce coat protein, and would misidentify some natural recombinant isolates as pea early‐browning tobravirus. In contrast, nucleic acid hybridization tests with a probe to any part of RNA1 can detect all these different variants of tobacco rattle tobravirus.