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ON the Transmission of Potato Leaf‐Roll by Aphides
Author(s) -
Whitehead T.
Publication year - 1931
Publication title -
annals of applied biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.677
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1744-7348
pISSN - 0003-4746
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-7348.1931.tb02304.x
Subject(s) - myzus persicae , biology , potato virus y , horticulture , botany , humanities , plant virus , virus , aphid , virology , philosophy
S ummary . 1. Evidence is submitted to show that Myzus circumflexus (Buckton) is as efficient a vector of potato leaf‐roll as is Myzus persicae (Sulz). The implications, both practical and academic, of this fact are discussed, particularly in view of the retardation in the development of symptoms shown by plants infested with Myzus circumflexus carrying the leaf‐roll virus. 2. Macrosiphum gei (Koch) only transmitted the disease once and its importance as a field vector is still an open question. The writer is glad to acknowledge the help given by the laboratory assistant, Mr G. L. Turner, in the above work.