A Research Team Diagnoses two Viruses for the First Time in Iraq

A research team from College of Agriculture / University of Kerbala and University of Nottingham Ningbo China is able to diagnose and identify, for the first time in Iraq, “Cotton bunchy top virus isolate Iraq -1, complete genome” and “Erysiphe necator-associated virus 1 isolate Iraq -1 RNA dependent RNA polymerase( RdRp) mRNA partial cds”.
The research team include Dr. Adnan Abdel Jaleel and the M.A student Maryam Hashim Al-Helou / Department of Plant Protection, and Dr. Junmin li and Dr. Xu Zhongtian / Institute of Plant Virology at Ningbo University in China.
It is noteworthy that the first registration nationwide has been documented in Genebank of US National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).