Role of Potyviruses in Synergistic Interaction Leading to Maize Lethal Necrotic Disease on Maize
| dc.contributor.author | Mbega, Ernest | |
| dc.contributor.author | Ndakidemi, Patrick | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mamiro, Delphina | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mushongi, Arnold | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kitenge, K. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Ndomba, O. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-09-07T11:57:19Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-09-07T11:57:19Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016-06-10 | |
| dc.description | This research article was published by International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences in 2016 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Synergistic interactions among pathogenic viruses are common in plants. Though not all, but a number of reported cases involving such interactions have a potyvirus partner during co-infection. The presence of the potyvirus group seems to favor its own multiplication on host and multiplication of a co-infecting partner. In this review, some characteristics favoring higher pathogenesis have been discussed using maize lethal necrosis (MLN)- causing viruses namely Maize chlorotic mottle virus (MCMV) and its synergistic potyvirus, Sugarcane mosaic virus (SCMV). A comprehensive discussion on the role of potyvirus in the synergism has been presented to show that in MLN and similar synergisms - the machinery for induction, transmission and colonization of the host is catalysed by the potyvirus and not the co-infecting viral partner which otherwise seems to be the most virulent in the synergism-based diseases such as MLN disease in maize. Furthermore, the effect of MLN to food security and areas for future research for Africa has been discussed in this review. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.20546/ijcmas.2016.506.011 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.nm-aist.ac.tz/handle/20.500.12479/1912 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences | en_US |
| dc.subject | Synergistic Interaction | en_US |
| dc.subject | Potyviruses | en_US |
| dc.subject | Maize Lethal Necrotic Disease | en_US |
| dc.title | Role of Potyviruses in Synergistic Interaction Leading to Maize Lethal Necrotic Disease on Maize | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |