Taxon Details

Taxon name: Shotokuvirae

from the Japanese Empress Shōtoku (称徳天皇), aka Kōken (孝謙天皇), who wrote a poem about a plant disease caused by a geminivirus—considered the first written record of a plant virus disease; the suffix -virae for kingdom taxa

ICTV Report: Created in Proposal: 2019.005G.zip Reference:

International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses

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