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Leaf samples of Cucurbita pepo plants showing yellow mosaic symptoms were collected from Lahore, Pakistan. Full-length clones of a bipartite begomovirus were isolated and sequenced in their entirety. The sequences showed the highest levels of nucleotide sequence identity (98.4% for the DNA-A and 89.6% for the DNA-B) to the ‘Indian’ strain of Squash leaf curl China virus (SLCCNV).
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Tahir, M., Haider, M.S. & Briddon, R.W. First report of Squash leaf curl China virus in Pakistan. Australasian Plant Disease Notes 5, 21–24 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1071/DN10009
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