Type: Article
EGGPLANT MOTTLED DWARF VIRUS IN POTATO IN IRAN
Journal: PLANT DISEASE (01912917)Year: 1989Volume: Issue: 10Pages: 856 - 858
DOI:10.1094/PD-73-0856Language: English
Abstract
A previously unrecorded disease of potatoes in wet-central Iran, characterized by severe stunting, chlorosis, apical necrosis, and wilting, was found to be due to infection by a mechanically transmissible tuber-borne plant rhabdovirus. The virus had bullet-shaped particles measuring 76 .times. 190 nm in leaf-dip preparations and was biologically and serologically similar to previously described isolates of eggplant mottled dwarf virus (EMDV). This is the first report of natural occurrence of EMDV in potato.