Claim · model-written summary
Pepper veinal mottle virus caused severe disease of eggplant in West Africa.
- Taxon
- eggplant
Solanum melongenae0 - Interactor
- pepper veinal mottle virusPepper veinal mottle viruse0pathogen
- Outcome
- Severe diseasese0
- Direction
- inducede0
- Setting
- West Africae0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentComparatorValueQualifier
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Verbatim
e0“Severe diseases of pepper (Capsicum annuum) , tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) , eggplant (Solanum melongena) and tomato eggplant (Solanum integrifolium) in West Africa were induced by pepper veinal mottle virus (PVMV)”
Title
A. A. BRUNT; R. H. KENTEN; SUE PHILLIPS Annals of Applied Biology 1978. doi:10.1111/j.1744-7348.1978.tb00685.x
Other claims from this paper (14)
- Observation Pepper veinal mottle virus caused severe disease of pepper in West Africa.
- Observation Pepper veinal mottle virus caused severe disease of tomato in West Africa.
- Observation Pepper veinal mottle virus caused severe disease of tomato eggplant in West Africa.
- Observation The five selected virus isolates were serologically similar.
- Observation The five virus isolates differed in host range and/or symptoms in some susceptible species.
- Observation The eggplant isolate failed to infect pepper.
- Observation The eggplant isolate induced only local infections in tomato.
- Observation The tomato isolate failed to infect eggplant.
- Observation The tomato eggplant isolate induced severe stunting in Physalis floridana.
- Observation The type strain failed to infect Nicotiana tabacum systemically.
- Observation The type strain and the tomato isolate each caused severe systemic leaf and stem necrosis in tomato.
- Observation None of the isolates infected S. melongena cv. Long Purple.
- Recommendation Pepper veinal mottle virus might be controlled in crop species by immune or tolerant cultivars.
- Observation All five isolates were serologically related to potato virus Y and some to six of 12 other potyviruses.