Tomato yellow leaf curl geminivirus (TYLCV), transmitted by the whitefly Bemisia tabaci
(Gennadius) is one of the most devastating diseases of cultivated tomato (Lycopersicon …

The proliferation and rapid dissemination of whitefly-transmitted viruses of important food
and industrial crops in Latin America, have been the consequence of drastic changes in …

Centro International de Agricultura Tropical, Cali, Colombia uch of the American subtropics
and tropics have a climate that is conducive to the year-round production of tomato …

The name tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) has been given to several whitefly-
transmitted geminiviruses affecting tomato cultures in many tropical and subtropical regions …

The cultivated tomato, Solanum lycopersicum L., is the second most consumed vegetable
crop after potato and unquestionably the most popular garden crop in the world. There are …

Genomes of two isolates of tomato leaf curl geminivirus from India (ToLCV-India) have been
sequenced. ToLCV-India contains A and B components, both of which are required for …

The genomes and ORFs of 36 geminiviruses were compared to obtain phylogenetic trees
and frequency distributions of all possible pairwise comparisons with an objective to classify …

Field surveys were conducted in the autumn of 1997 in the main tomato (Lycopersicon
esculentum)-growing regions of southern Spain following a severe tomato yellow leaf curl …

Current knowledge of plant virus diversity is biased towards agents of visible and
economically important diseases. Less is known about viruses that have not caused major …

This review focuses on the biology of geminiviruses, and discusses the uses of geminiviral
vectors in plant molecular genetic research and their potential for other applications under …