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A SOLANACEOUS HOST OF THE VIRUS OF ‘INFECTIOUS CHLOROSIS’ OF MALVACEAE *
Author(s) -
SILBERSCHMIDT K.,
TOMMASI L. R.
Publication year - 1956
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.1744-7348.1956.tb06855.x
Subject(s) - biology , malvaceae , chlorosis , host (biology) , virus , sida , whitefly , virology , botany , begomovirus , viral disease , plant virus , ecology
Viruses that are transmitted by white‐fly occur commonly in solanaceous and malvaceous species, and infected plants from both families often exhibit similar kinds of symptoms. Consequently it has often been assumed that the same viruses infect species in both families, although attempts to demonstrate this experimentally have all failed. Now, however, using Bemisia tabaci (Genn.), we have transmitted the infectious chlorosis virus of Malvaceae from Sida rhombifolia to Nicandra physaloides. Bemisia tabaci also transmitted the virus from infected Nicandra physaloides to healthy seedlings of both N. physaloides and Sida rhombifolia. Attempts to infect Nicotiana tabacum failed.