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The epidemiology of tomato mosaic IX. Transmission of TMV by birds
Author(s) -
BROADBENT L.
Publication year - 1965
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.1744-7348.1965.tb07868.x
Subject(s) - tobacco mosaic virus , biology , cage , crop , transmission (telecommunications) , virology , veterinary medicine , zoology , botany , horticulture , virus , ecology , medicine , mathematics , combinatorics , electrical engineering , engineering
SUMMARY House sparrows ( Passer domesticus L.), confined in a cage with separate groups of TMV‐infected and healthy tomato plants, infected fifty of the 262 healthy plants by flying between the groups and perching on the plants. None of 191 healthy plants in an adjoining or the same cage without birds was infected. Thus birds could possibly spread TMV within crops and from one crop to another.