A divergent isolate of tomato yellow leaf curl virus from Oman with an associated DNA beta satellite: an evolutionary

Akhtar Jamal Khan1, Ali M Idris, Nadiya Abubaker Al-Saady

  • 1Department of Crop Sciences, College of Agricultural & Marine Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, PO Box 34, Al-Khod 123, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman.

Virus Genes
|October 13, 2007
PubMed

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