Plant Virus Research Studies

Data mining of global sequence datasets markedly expands known diversity within the Tobamovirus genus

Serratus-guided Snakemake mining, expert curation, clustering and phylogenetic placement identify at least 32 putative novel tobamoviruses in public short-read data, mostly Amazon River metatranscriptomes; a random-forest classifier partly automates curation.

Novel strains of tomato spotted wilt orthotospovirus (TSWV) are transmitted by western flower thrips in a context-specific manner

Western flower thrips inoculated six TSWV strains across four sequential periods; males trended toward higher efficiency (87% vs 77% for resistance-breaking strains), but per-period differences were not significant.