A total of 229 Vitis cultivars were sampled from a collection in Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa and subjected to an RNAtag-seq workflow and Illumina HiSeq 2500 sequencing. Following de novo assembly and initial ...
Coetzee, Beatrix; Douglas-Smit, Nicoleen; Maree, Hans J.; Burger, Johan T.; Pietersen, Gerhard; Kruger, Kerstin(American Society for Microbiology, 2019-04)
Here, we report the draft genome sequence of a phytoplasma discovered in grapevine. The genome size is 600,116 nucleotides (nt), with 597 predicted
open reading frames. It is most similar to a maize bushy stunt phytoplasma ...
Citrus Greening disease (CG) in South Africa (SA) is associated with the fastidious bacterium ‘Candidatus Liberibacter africanus’ (Laf). It has been observed that Laf isolates obtained from different geographic localities ...
Welgemoed, Tanya; Pierneef, Rian Ewald; Read, David Alan; Schulze, Susanna Elizabeth; Pietersen, Gerhard; Berger, David Kenneth(Springer, 2020-09)
Maize yellow mosaic virus (MaYMV) is a single-stranded RNA polerovirus first identified in China. MaYMV was recently reported from West and East Africa, however it had not yet been reported from southern Africa. RNA-seq ...
