A research team consisting of a master’s student, Mahmoud Othman Abbas, and the supervising professor, Prof. Adnan Abdul-Jalil Lahof from the Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, University of Karbala, from the diagnosis and identification of the complete genome for the first time in Iraq of the cotton leaf curl Gezira betasatellite virus associated with the tomato yellow leaf curl virus-Mild strain that infects tomato crop in Karbala governorate, Iraq. A.M.D. was mentioned. Adnan Abdul-Jalil Lahof said that this affiliate is cooperating with the aforementioned virus strain to significantly increase the rate and severity of infection in tomato farms spread in Karbala governorate, especially in desert areas, causing very large seasonal losses. This viral satellite (satellite DNA Beta) was identified by Next Generation Sequencing technology and deposited in the GenBank National Center for Biotechnology Information as Cotton leaf curl Gezira betasatellite isolate Karbala, complete sequence Under the symbol ON206651.1, the results of this registration were also published in the American Journal of Plant Health Progress, which is indexed in Scopus and Clarvet containers within the second quarter (Q2) magazines.
Link to published research https://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/PHP-04-22-0040-BR
