Claim · model-written summary
Severe symptoms were found in the wild relative C. fraterna.
- Taxon
- C. fraternaCucurbita melopepo var. fraternae3
- Outcome
- Severe symptomse3
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Verbatim
e3“Severe symptoms were found 30 and 35 days after mechanical and natural inoculation, respectively, in C. pepo, in all accessions belonging to the Zucchini morphotype and to other morphotypes of the subsp. pepo, subsp. ovifera and even in the wild relative C. fraterna”
Title
Tolerance to ToLCNDV in Cucurbita spp.
C. Sáez; C. Martínez; M. Ferriol; et al. Acta Horticulturae 2017. doi:10.17660/actahortic.2017.1151.6
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Observation Mechanical transmission of ToLCNDV was confirmed in all Cucurbita species tested.
- Observation Severe symptoms appeared 30 and 35 days after mechanical and natural inoculation in C. pepo.
- Observation Cucurbita maxima was highly susceptible to ToLCNDV.
- Observation C. ficifolia was highly susceptible to ToLCNDV.
- Observation C. moschata was the only species showing tolerance to ToLCNDV.
- Observation In C. moschata, ToLCNDV infection produced mosaic and mottling instead of curling.
- Observation Under natural infection, a few C. moschata accessions remained asymptomatic.
- Observation Under natural infection, no virus was detected in the apex of the asymptomatic C. moschata accessions.
- Observation Under mechanical inoculation, ToLCNDV symptoms in C. moschata accessions were mild and delayed.
- Observation Under mechanical inoculation, the C. moschata accessions with mild symptoms were PCR positive.
- Observation Some of the more tolerant Cucurbita accessions came from India.