Ecuador: New Virus Detected in Papaya Crops

Posted on June 30, 2014 • Filed under: Agriculture, Ecuador

freshfruitportal.com reported Ecuadorian scientist Diego Quito Ávila has identified a new virus in papaya plantations that had not yet been reported internationally, through the process of plant virology. As part of the Prometheus Project (Proyecto Prometeo in Spanish), a government initiative, he has been working closely with commercial growers to determine how this new virus affects production. “According to the information obtained up until now, the genome of this virus involves a new species,” the scientist told freshfruitportal.com. “There is no record of this virus in global databases for any crop. There are viruses in other crops that are distantly related at a genomic level to this new species. Read Article

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