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Agriculture · Q680

Plant Pathology

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 680

Q680

Maize streak virus comes under the family

A.
CaMV
B.
Geminiviridae
Answer
C.
Bunyaviridae
D.
Tombusviridae

Answer: Option B

Solution

Answer: Option B
Solution:
The maize streak virus comes under the family Geminiviridae.
Geminiviridae is a family of plant viruses that encode their genetic information on a circular genome of single-stranded (ss) DNA. They have single-stranded circular DNA genomes encoding genes that diverge in both directions from a virion strand origin of replication.
Maize streak virus occurs throughout Africa, where it causes what is probably the most serious viral crop disease on the continent.