Varicosavirus is a genus of plant viruses.
The virus is associated with swelling in plant vein tissues. They are negative single stranded RNA viruses. The genus contains three species.
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Virus classification | |
(unranked): | Virus |
Realm: | Riboviria |
Kingdom: | Orthornavirae |
Phylum: | Negarnaviricota |
Class: | Monjiviricetes |
Order: | Mononegavirales |
Family: | Rhabdoviridae |
Subfamily: | Betarhabdovirinae |
Genus: | Varicosavirus |
The genus contains the following species:
Virions consist of a non-enveloped rod-shaped capsid, having a helical symmetry of 120–360 nm in length, and a width of 18–30 nm.
The genome consists of a bi-segmented linear, single-stranded negative sense RNA. The first segment is about 6350–7000 nucleotides in length; the second, about 5630–6500 nucleotides in length.
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