Abstract
A debilitating virus disease of squash, watermelon, and cucumber on the islands of Rarotonga and Aitutaki (Cook Islands) is recorded for the first time. The disease was also recorded in wild pumpkin and in the weed balsam apple. The virus was readily transmitted in a non‐persistent manner by Myzus persicae (Sulz.), and winged forms of this aphid were found in abundance on squash and watermelon crops. From the host range, physical and serological properties, and particle morphology, the virus was identified as watermelon mosaic virus, strain 1.
Abstract from the paper’s OpenAlex record, shown for indexing and research. Copyright remains with the authors or the publisher. Read at the source ↗
The text the model read, with the source record’s inline markup (italics, sub- and superscripts) rendered and its character entities decoded; quote offsets refer to the raw text.
Claims 6
Claim · model-written summary
A debilitating virus disease was first recorded in squash, watermelon, and cucumber on Rarotonga and Aitutaki.
Verbatim
e0“A debilitating virus disease of squash, watermelon, and cucumber on the islands of Rarotonga and Aitutaki (Cook Islands) is recorded for the first time.”
Claim · model-written summary
The disease was also recorded in wild pumpkin.
Verbatim
e0“The disease was also recorded in wild pumpkin and in the weed balsam apple.”
Claim · model-written summary
The disease was also recorded in balsam apple.
- Taxon
- balsam apple
Momordica balsaminae0 - Outcome
- diseasee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The disease was also recorded in wild pumpkin and in the weed balsam apple.”
Claim · model-written summary
Myzus persicae readily transmitted the virus in a non-persistent manner.
- Taxon
- cucurbitst0
- Interactor
- Myzus persicae
Myzus persicaee0pest - Outcome
- virus was readily transmittede0
- Qualifier
- non‐persistent mannere0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“cucurbits”
e0“The virus was readily transmitted in a non‐persistent manner by Myzus persicae (Sulz.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Winged Myzus persicae were abundant on squash and watermelon crops.
- Taxon
- squash and watermelone0
- Interactor
- Myzus persicaeMyzus persicaee1pest
- Outcome
- winged forms of this aphid were found in abundancee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“winged forms of this aphid were found in abundance on squash and watermelon crops”
e1“Myzus persicae (Sulz.)”
Claim · model-written summary
The disease virus was identified as watermelon mosaic virus, strain 1.
- Taxon
- cucurbitst0
- Interactor
- watermelon mosaic virus, strain 1
_-_Hinrichs-Berger.jpg?width=60)
Watermelon mosaic viruse0pathogen - Outcome
- identified as watermelon mosaic virus, strain 1e0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
_-_Hinrichs-Berger.jpg?width=500)
Verbatim
e0“the virus was identified as watermelon mosaic virus, strain 1.”
t0“cucurbits”