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CHLOROTIC STUNT OF LETTUCE CAUSED BY ARABIS MOSAIC VIRUS
Author(s) -
Walkey D. G. A.
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
plant pathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.928
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1365-3059
pISSN - 0032-0862
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-3059.1967.tb00355.x
Subject(s) - biology , virus , virology , strain (injury) , botany , antiserum , antibody , anatomy , immunology
SUMMARY A severe lettuce disease, designated ‘Chlorotic Stunt’, found in 1965 on a fenland farm in Norfolk, was caused by a strain of arabis mosaic virus. Diseased plants were severely chlorotic, necrotic, stunted and failed to heart. The causal virus was sap‐transmitted and inactivated in sap after 10 min at 60°C. Purified preparations contained polyhedral particles 25mμ in diameter and the virus reacted with antisera of arabis mosaic virus.