Wheat dwarf virus
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Wheat dwarf virus is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Geminiviridae
. The two isolates of this virus effect both what and barley. It is spread by the leafhopper Psammotettix alienus.
Geminiviridae
Geminiviruses are plant viruses which have single-stranded circular DNA genomes encoding genes that diverge in both directions from a virion strand origin of replication . According to the Baltimore classification they are considered class II viruses...
. The two isolates of this virus effect both what and barley. It is spread by the leafhopper Psammotettix alienus.