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Rhizomania disease of sugar beet in England
Author(s) -
HILL S. A.,
TORRANCE L.
Publication year - 1989
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.1365-3059.1989.tb01437.x
Subject(s) - sugar beet , biology , crop , agronomy , outbreak , virus , virus diseases , botany , indicator plant , plant virus , horticulture , virology
Rhizomania disease was first detected in the UK in 1987, in a single crop in Suffolk. Affected plants had pale leaves, often upright, narrow and rolled; roots were small, often with constrictions, warty outgrowths, proliferation of fibrous roots, and vascular staining. Disease occurred in strips at right angles to one another, parallel with directions of cultivation, suggesting that the previous beet crop had also been infected. Beet necrotic yellow vein virus was detected by ELISA, by electron microscopy, and by transmission to indicator species. It was sometimes associated with beet soil‐borne virus. The affected crop was destroyed with herbicide. No other outbreaks were detected in subsequent surveys of crops in 1987.