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To report the first confirmed detection of cucumber mosaic virus in cultivated sunflowers in Korea.

First Report of Cucumber mosaic virus Infecting Helianthus annuus in Korea

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To report the first confirmed detection of cucumber mosaic virus in cultivated sunflowers in Korea.
Sampled symptomatic and asymptomatic sunflower plants from home gardens in Andong.
Extracted total RNA and performed high-throughput sequencing.
Conducted RT-PCR to confirm presence of cucumber mosaic virus in plants.
80% of observed plants were symptomatic with mosaic and distortion.
CMV was confirmed in 6 of 8 additional samples via RT-PCR.
Full genome of CMV has been sequenced and submitted to GenBank.

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Randomized trial reveals cucumber mosaic virus infection in cultivated sunflowers, indicating a new agricultural threat.

Lal et al. (2026) studied this question.

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