Shotokuvirae


Shotokuvirae is a kingdom of viruses.

Nomenclature

The kingdom, Shotokuvirae, was named after Japan's Empress Shotoku, who reigned over Japan twice, first as Empress Koken and later as Empress Shotoku, and who created the world's earliest written record of a plant virus disease, which was a poem to her followers about a geminivirus eupatorium yellow vein virus infection of a eupatorium plant, which she had described as having turned yellow.

Taxonomy

The following phyla are recognized: