Tymovirales is an order of viruses with five families. The group consists of viruses which have positive-sense, single-stranded RNA genomes. Their genetic material is protected by a special coat protein.
Tymoviruses are mainly plant pathogens first described in 2004.[1] They are characterised by similarities in their replication-associated polyproteins. These account for the majority of their genomiccoding capacity. They are considered to form a group, phylogenetically, referred to as flexiviruses, with filamentous virions.[2]
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