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 ## Viral metagenomic analysis
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-Raw data were decontaminated by removing reads originating from carrots, cabbage, and turnip, as well as low-quality reads, in order to assemble the reads into contigs. Contigs longer than 2 kb were selected, and viral contigs were identified.
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-All contigs larger than 2 kb were concatenated and dereplicated to retain only one vOTU. The cleaned reads were then mapped to the vOTUs to generate an abundance table of vOTUs in the samples.
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-The abundance table was processed using the Virome_analyses_2024.rmd script in RStudio to create phyloseq objects for DNA- and RNA-amplified samples.
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 ### Reads QC
 For each sample, raw reads were quality quality checked using [FastQC](https://github.com/s-andrews/FastQC) version 0.11.9, and the results were saved in `results/FastQC_report`. Here is the command line:
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