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Some properties of peanut clump, a newly discovered virus
Author(s) -
THOUVENEL J.C.,
DOLLET M.,
FAUQUET C.
Publication year - 1976
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.1744-7348.1976.tb01774.x
Subject(s) - chenopodium , biology , infectivity , virus , chenopodiaceae , virology , botany , tobacco mosaic virus , horticulture , weed
SUMMARY A mechanically transmissible soil‐borne virus causing peanut clump disease in Upper Volta is described. It infected mainly species of Chenopodia‐ceae and was propagated in Chenopodium amaranticolor. Infectivity was lost from sap of C. amaranticolor after 10 min at 64 °C, and after dilution to 10 ‐5 but not io ‐4 . A purification procedure is described. The particles are rod‐shaped and of two predominant lengths, 190 and 245 nm. The virus is not serologically related to tobacco rattle, pea early‐browning, or soil‐borne wheat mosaic viruses, or to a virus associated with a rhizomania‐like disease of beet.