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Abacá mosaic virus and its relationship to sugar‐cane mosaic
Author(s) -
ELOJA A. L.,
TINSLEY T. W.
Publication year - 1963
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.1744-7348.1963.tb03692.x
Subject(s) - biology , virology , mosaic , alfalfa mosaic virus , cucumber mosaic virus , strain (injury) , mosaic virus , virus , inoculation , sugar cane , sugar , plant virus , cane , horticulture , agronomy , coat protein , rna , food science , anatomy , genetics , archaeology , gene , history
SUMMARY Abacá mosaic virus (AMV), which is readily transmissible between maize seedlings by inoculation with sap, has properties suggesting that it is a strain of sugar‐cane mosaic virus. Antisera to AMV precipitated specifically with sap from plants infected with the strain of sugar‐cane mosaic virus found, in Puerto Rico. Partially purified preparations of AMV contained flexuous rods 680 mμ long similar to those recorded for sugar‐cane mosaic virus. No evidence was found to support the widely held view that AMV is a strain of cucumber mosaic virus. Cucumber mosaic may infect abacá, but it is certain that other viruses can cause typical symptoms of abacá mosaic.