Yasir Iftikhar1,*, Mazhar Abbas2, Mustansar Mubeen3, Muhammad Zafar-ul-Hye4,*, Faheema Bakhtawar1, Sonum Bashir1, Ashara Sajid1, Muhammad Asif Shabbir1
Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.90, No.4, pp. 1063-1074, 2021, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2021.015508
Abstract Tristeza is a devastating viral disease in all the citrus growing countries throughout the world and has killed millions of citrus trees in severely affected orchards. The citrus species grafted on sour orange rootstock are affected
by this disease. Predominantly, the sweet orange, grapefruit and lime trees grafted on sour orange exhibit severe
symptoms like quick decline, vein clearing, pin holing, bark scaling and degeneration leading to variable symptoms. Symptomatic expression of Citrus tristeza virus (CTV) in different hosts has been attributed to virus isolates
which are from severe to mild. Different serological and molecular assays have been deployed to… More >
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