Phytoreovirus particles have icosahedral symmetry with a distinctive angular appearance and contain 12 dsRNA species. They are transmitted by cicadellid leafhoppers to susceptible plant species, replicating in both hosts and vectors.
Jelle Matthijnssens, Houssam Attoui, Krisztián Bányai, Corina P. D. Brussaard, Pranav Danthi, Mariana del Vas, Terence S. Dermody, Roy Duncan, Qín Fāng (方勤), Reimar Johne, Peter P. C. Mertens, Fauziah Mohd Jaafar, John Patton, Takahide Sasaya (笹谷孝英), Nobuhiro Suzuki (鈴木信弘) and Taiyun Wei (魏太云)
The citation for this ICTV Report chapter is the summary published as Matthijnssens et al., (2022) ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Sedoreoviridae, Journal of General Virology (2022) 103:001782.
