fmicb-12-699078 July 26, 2021 Time: 18:4 # 1 ORIGINAL RESEARCH published: 30 July 2021 doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.699078 Full Genome Evolutionary Studies of Wheat Streak Mosaic-Associated Viruses Using High-Throughput Edited by: Sequencing Akhtar Ali, University of Tulsa, United States Carla Dizon Redila, Savannah Phipps† and Shahideh Nouri* Reviewed by: Department of Plant Pathology, College of Agriculture, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States Xifeng Wang, State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Wheat streak mosaic (WSM), a viral disease affecting cereals and grasses, causes Institute of Plant Protection (CAAS), China substantial losses in crop yields. Wheat streak mosaic virus (WSMV) is the main causal Artemis Rumbou, agent of the complex, but mixed infections with Triticum mosaic virus (TriMV) and High Humboldt University of Berlin, plains wheat mosaic emaravirus (HPWMoV) were reported as well. Although resistant Germany Satyanarayana Tatineni, varieties are effective for the disease control, a WSMV resistance-breaking isolate Agricultural Research Service, and several potential resistance-breaking isolates have been reported, suggesting that United States Department of Agriculture, United States viral populations are genetically diverse. Previous phylogenetic studies of WSMV were *Correspondence: conducted by focusing only on the virus coat protein (CP) sequence, while there is no Shahideh Nouri such study for either TriMV or HPWMoV. Here, we studied the genetic variation and
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