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Coconut foliar decay virus particles are 20-nm icosahedra
1Department of Plant Pathology, Waite Agricultural Research Institute, Adelaide, Australia.
Intervirology
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
A small single-stranded circular DNA has previously been reported to be associated with foliar decay disease of coconut palm in Vanuatu. Here we describe the isolation of unusual 20-nm icosahedral particles which copurify with foliar decay disease DNA and which we consider to be the coconut foliar decay virus. This virus seems to represent a novel group of plant viruses.