Botrytis Cinerea - Mycoviruses of Botrytis Cinerea

Mycoviruses of Botrytis Cinerea

Botrytis cinerea not only infects plants, it also hosts several mycoviruses itself (see Table).

A range of phenotypic alterations due to the mycoviral infection have been observed from symptomless to mild impact, or more severe phenotypic changes including reduction in growth/suppression of mycelia, sporulation and sclerotia production, formation of abnormal colony sectors (Wu et al., 2010) and virulence.

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