Advances in research of DNA virus infecting sweet potato
Sweet potato is an important food crops and food processing and industrial raw materials.China is the largest producer of sweet potato in the world.Virus diseases were the important diseases on sweet potato.The reported viruses infecting sweet potato mainly belonged to Geminiviridae and Caulimoviridae.In recent years,begomoviruses and other DNA viruses became serious threats to planting industry of sweet potato in China and influenced the yield,quality of sweet potato and the food processing industry.In order to know more about the DNA viruses infecting sweet potato,the important status and planting situation of sweet potato in China were briefly introduced,and the characteristics,molecular variation,classification situation and detection methods of these viruses belonged to Begomovirus,Mastrevirus and Badnavirus were concretely described in this review.Combining with the actual situation of sweet potato planting in China,the existing problems and thinking in the research of DNA viruses infecting sweet potato were brought up.The objects of this paper were to provide the theoretical basis for the comprehensive prevention and control for sweet potato diseases infected by DNA viruses.