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STUDIES ON DANDELION YELLOW MOSAIC AND OTHER VIRUS DISEASES OF LETTUCE
Author(s) -
KASSANIS B.
Publication year - 1947
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.1744-7348.1947.tb06374.x
Subject(s) - biology , dandelion , myzus persicae , inoculation , mosaic virus , indicator plant , virus , cucumber mosaic virus , horticulture , plant virus , botany , agronomy , virology , aphid , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology , traditional chinese medicine
The symptoms caused by dandelion yellow mosaic virus on cultivated lettuce, Lactuca serriola and L. virosa , are described and compared with those caused by lettuce mosaic virus. Lettuce is much more susceptible than dandelion to the yellow mosaic virus; no infections of dandelion were obtained by mechanical inoculation and only three by aphides, whereas infection of lettuce is regularly obtained by aphides and by inoculation provided an abrasive is used. Myzus ornatus, M. ascalonicus and Aulacorthum solani transmitted dandelion yellow mosaic virus but not lettuce mosaic virus, whereas Myzus persicae transmitted the latter but not the former. Nasonovia ribicola , the common lettuce aphis, transmitted neither. Aphides became infective only after feeding periods of some hours on the diseased plants and ceased to be infective within an hour of the infective feeding. Their efficiency as vectors was not increased by a preliminary starving period, as happens with Myzus persicae and lettuce mosaic virus. Lettuce mosaic virus was found in most samples of commercial seed, which explains its prevalence; no evidence was found for the seed‐transmission of dandelion mosaic virus and it is doubtful if it occurs, for infected lettuce are so severely affected that they rarely set seed. Cucumber mosaic virus was isolated from naturally infected lettuce.