This is a description of a plant virus at the genus level (assigned to the new family Caulimoviridae for Caulimovirus and Badnavirus which have a reverse transcriptase step in their replication) with data on all virus properties from morphology to genome, replication, antigenicity and biological properties.
ICTVdB Virus Code: 00.015.0.01. Virus accession number: 015001GE. Obsolete virus code: 15.0.1.; superceded accession number: 15010000.
NCBI Taxon Identifier NCBI Taxonomy ID: 10639.
Name, Synonyms and Lineage
Synonym(s): Cauliflower mosaic virus group. Virus is of the family 00.015. Caulimoviridae.