[3] MCMV was first identified in the U.S. state of Kansas causing maize lethal necrosis disease/MLN/corn lethal necrosis, a severe disease that negatively affects all stages of development for maize plants.

[4] Viruses in Machlomovirus are non-enveloped, with icosahedral and spherical geometries, and T=3 symmetry.

Translation takes place by leaky scanning, and suppression of termination.

The virus exits the host cell by tubule-guided viral movement.

[1] Even a small incidence of seed transmission is problematic: Although Kimani et al. 2021 finds MCMV to be almost incapable of successfully making the jump from contaminated seed to infecting a seedling, even a small infected proportion of a field will infect the entire field (via vector) unless quickly removed.