Identification and characterization of water chestnut Soymovirus-1 (WCSV-1), a novel Soymovirus in water chestnuts (Eleocharis dulcis)

A disease of unknown etiology in water chestnut plants (Eleocharis dulcis) was reported in China between 2012 and 2014. High throughput sequencing of small RNA (sRNA) combined with bioinformatics, and molecular identification based on PCR detection with virus-specific primers and DNA sequencing is a desirable approach to identify an unknown infectious agent. In this study, we employed this approach to identify viral sequences in water chestnut...