Geographical and Genetic Divergence Among Papaya ringspot virus Populations Within Hainan Province, China

Hui Zhao1, Rui Zong Jia1, Yu-Liang Zhang1

  • 1First author: College of Agriculture, Hainan University, Haikou, Hainan, China 570228; first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, and ninth authors: Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Resources of Tropical Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, P.R. China, and Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agriculture Sciences, Haikou, Hainan, China 571101; and second, fourth, and seventh authors: Hawaii Agriculture Research Center, Waipahu 96797.

Phytopathology
|April 13, 2016
PubMed

Keywords:
coat protein

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