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==Ecology and Pathogenesis==  
==Ecology and Pathogenesis==  
Habitat; symbiosis; biogeochemical significance; contributions to environment.<br>
This virus causes big-vein disease in lettuce leaves and is transmitted using obligate parasitic soil-borne fungi. The exact fungus is still being evaluated. It favors cool temperatures throughout Europe, Asia, North America, and South America in moist soil. ''Varicosavirus'' affects lettuce leaf veins as it causes the leaf to enlarge leading to drier, more brittle textures. This in turn causes the lettuce to be unmarketable, and it is difficult to rid the soil of the virus and its obligate parasitic fungus.
If relevant, how does this organism cause disease? Human, animal, plant hosts? Virulence
 
factors, as well as patient symptoms.<br><br>
==References==  
==References==  
[Sample reference] [http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/cgi/reprint/50/2/489 Takai, K., Sugai, A., Itoh, T.,  
[Sample reference] [http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/cgi/reprint/50/2/489 Takai, K., Sugai, A., Itoh, T.,  

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Classification

Viruses; Riboviria; Orthonavirae; Negarnaviricota; Haploviricotina; Monjiviricetes; Mononegavirales; Rhabdoviridae; Betarhabdovirinae

Species

NCBI: [1]

Varicosavirus

Description and Significance

Varicosavirus is a nonenveloped, rod-shaped virus with helix symmetry. It infects veins in lettuce leaves and is associated with causing big-vein disease in field-grown lettuce. The type species and only member of the genus is Lettuce big-vein associated virus (LBVaV).

Transmission of the virus is through moist soil via zoospores from an obligate parasitic soil-borne fungus. LBVaV causes deformities in affected leaves that make them unmarketable.

Genome Structure

Varicosavirus is classified by its 18 nm diameter rods, single-strand RNA, and its two-segmented linear negative sense genome. The first segment, RNA1, has around 7000 nucleotides and the second segment, RNA2, has around 6500 nucleotides. RNA1 encodes for an L protein, and RNA2 encodes for CP, N protein,and the other genes’ functions are unknown.

Cell Structure, Metabolism and Life Cycle

Interesting features of cell structure; how it gains energy; what important molecules it produces.

Ecology and Pathogenesis

This virus causes big-vein disease in lettuce leaves and is transmitted using obligate parasitic soil-borne fungi. The exact fungus is still being evaluated. It favors cool temperatures throughout Europe, Asia, North America, and South America in moist soil. Varicosavirus affects lettuce leaf veins as it causes the leaf to enlarge leading to drier, more brittle textures. This in turn causes the lettuce to be unmarketable, and it is difficult to rid the soil of the virus and its obligate parasitic fungus.

References

[Sample reference] [http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/cgi/reprint/50/2/489 Takai, K., Sugai, A., Itoh, T., and Horikoshi, K. "Palaeococcus ferrophilus gen. nov., sp. nov., a barophilic, hyperthermophilic archaeon from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent chimney". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 2000. Volume 50. p. 489-500.]

Author

Page authored by Shelby Kennedy, student of Prof. Bradley Tolar at UNC Wilmington.

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