First Report of Association of a Begomovirus with the Leaf Curl Disease of a Common Weed, Datura Inoxia

摘要

Begomovirus is one of the largest genus of the family Geminiviridae and the vector white fly (Bemisia tabaci) is prevalent in the tropical and subtropical regions of the world [4]. Weeds may infect crops and those weeds may serve as a reservoir for crop-infecting geminiviruses [1, 5]. In the present report we identified a begomovirus infecting Datura inoxia, a common hallucinogenic alkaloid containing toxic weed found in India annually.