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The Viruses and Their Taxonomy

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The Plant Viruses

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In the past decade and a half the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) has evolved a virus taxonomy which is accepted and used by the majority of virologists (Wildy, 1971; Fenner, 1976; Matthews, 1979, 1982). This is in sharp contrast to the previous efforts of numerous individual workers who endeavored to establish suitable methods of nomenclature and classification (reviewed by Francki, 1981, and Matthews, 1983) and most of which now appear rather naive and unacceptable by contemporary notions. Currently, the majority of viruses infecting vertebrates are classified into families and genera on the recommendation of the Vertebrate Virus Subcommittee of the ICTV. This approach has been followed for the classification of bacterial and invertebrate viruses by the respective ICTV subcommittees. Contrary to this, the Plant Virus Subcommittee (PVS) has divided viruses into loosely defined groups with the exception of those which show affinities to viruses of vertebrates and arthropods; they are included in the families Reoviridae and Rhabdovir-idae. In the case of the Reoviridae, members infecting plants have been subdivided into two genera, Phytoreovirus and Fijivirus (Matthews, 1982). Thus, at present, plant viruses are divided among two families and 24 groups (Matthews, 1982).

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Francki, R.I.B. (1985). The Viruses and Their Taxonomy. In: Francki, R.I.B. (eds) The Plant Viruses. The Viruses. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4937-2_1

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