phytovirus
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phytovirus (plural phytoviruses)
- (biology) A plant virus.
- 2016, Mark Denison, Virus Evolution, page 81:
- Although RNA phytoviruses have been shown to recombine in the field, the proportion of recombinants generated during a single-host infection does not seem to reach the levels of their DNA counterparts, probably because cell co-infection by different genotypes is often limited.