Claim · model-written summary
A virus causes yellowing of Konjac plants.
- Taxon
- Konjac plant
Amorphophallus konjace0 - Interactor
- a certain viruse0pathogen
- Outcome
- yellowinge0
- Setting
- fielde0
Verbatim
e0“The writer investigated the cause of yellowing of Konjac plant which frequently occurs in the field, and demonstrated the cause to be due to a certain virus according to the cormgrafting or some other experiments.”
Title
Studies on the Virus Diseases of Amorphophallus Koniac
Shigemichi WAKABAYASI Japanese Journal of Crop Science 1961. doi:10.1626/jcs.29.369
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Observation The disease is not transmitted through seed.
- Observation The disease does not produce X-bodies.
- Mechanism The disease causes leaf deformity.
- Observation Diseased Konjac leaves are short and have light green, indistinctly spotted stalks.
- Observation Diseased Konjac foliage is pale and frequently mosaic.
- Observation Diseased leaf blades grow poorly and droop.
- Observation Yellow and green mosaic sometimes appears on the leaf surface.
- Association Corm yield decreases as disease symptoms worsen.