Abstract
The ability of zoospores of four cultures of Olpidium radicale and one of O. brassicae to transmit viruses acquired in vitro from dilute virus solutions was compared. Transmission was demonstrated by infectivity and serological assays of the roots of cucumber seedlings 6 days after inoculation. A bulk culture of O. radicale, from cucumber plant roots collected near Nantes, France, a single-sporangial culture derived from it, and a single-sporangial culture from melon plant roots collected near Woodland, California, U.S.A., transmitted cucumber leaf spot virus (CLSV) and the cucumber fruit streak strain of CLSV (CLSV-FS). A bulk culture of O. radicale from melon plant roots collected at Montfavet, France, did not transmit CLSV or CLSV-FS. All four cultures transmitted cucumber necrosis and melon necrotic spot viruses, used as positive controls, but they did not transmit cucumber soil-borne, squash necrosis, petunia asteroid mosaic or tobacco necrosis viruses. In each of the trials a single-sporangial culture of O. brassicae from lettuce plant grown in California transmitted only tobacco necrosis virus.
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Claims 5
Claim · model-written summary
Three O. radicale cultures transmitted CLSV and CLSV-FS to cucumber seedlings.
- Taxon
- cucumber
Cucumis sativuse1
- Organ / stage
- rootse1
- Interactor
- cucumber leaf spot virus (CLSV)Cucumber leaf spot viruse0pathogen
- Second interactor
- O. radicalee0other
- Outcome
- transmitted cucumber leaf spot virus (CLSV) and the cucumber fruit streak strain of CLSV (CLSV-FS)e0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“A bulk culture of O. radicale, from cucumber plant roots collected near Nantes, France, a single-sporangial culture derived from it, and a single-sporangial culture from melon plant roots collected near Woodland, California, U.S.A., transmitted cucumber leaf spot virus (CLSV) and the cucumber fruit streak strain of CLSV (CLSV-FS).”
e1“roots of cucumber seedlings 6 days after inoculation”
Claim · model-written summary
The Montfavet O. radicale culture did not transmit CLSV or CLSV-FS.
- Taxon
- cucumber
Cucumis sativuse1
- Interactor
- CLSVe0pathogen
- Second interactor
- O. radicalee0other
- Outcome
- transmit CLSV or CLSV-FSe0
- Direction
- did not transmite0
- Setting
- Montfavet, Francee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“A bulk culture of O. radicale from melon plant roots collected at Montfavet, France, did not transmit CLSV or CLSV-FS.”
e1“roots of cucumber seedlings 6 days after inoculation”
Claim · model-written summary
All four O. radicale cultures transmitted cucumber necrosis and melon necrotic spot viruses.
- Taxon
- cucumber
Cucumis sativuse2
- Interactor
- cucumber necrosise0pathogen
- Second interactor
- Olpidium radicalee1other
- Outcome
- transmitted cucumber necrosis and melon necrotic spot virusese0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“All four cultures transmitted cucumber necrosis and melon necrotic spot viruses, used as positive controls”
e1“four cultures of Olpidium radicale”
e2“roots of cucumber seedlings 6 days after inoculation”
Claim · model-written summary
The four O. radicale cultures did not transmit cucumber soil-borne, squash necrosis, petunia asteroid mosaic, or tobacco necrosis viruses.
- Taxon
- cucumber
Cucumis sativuse2
- Interactor
- cucumber soil-bornee0pathogen
- Second interactor
- Olpidium radicalee1other
- Outcome
- did not transmit cucumber soil-borne, squash necrosis, petunia asteroid mosaic or tobacco necrosis virusese0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“they did not transmit cucumber soil-borne, squash necrosis, petunia asteroid mosaic or tobacco necrosis viruses”
e1“four cultures of Olpidium radicale”
e2“roots of cucumber seedlings 6 days after inoculation”
Claim · model-written summary
An O. brassicae culture from lettuce transmitted only tobacco necrosis virus.
- Taxon
- lettuce
Lactuca sativae0 - Interactor
- tobacco necrosis virusunidentified tobacco necrosis viruse0pathogen
- Second interactor
- O. brassicaeOlpidium brassicaee0other
- Outcome
- transmitted only tobacco necrosis viruse0
- Setting
- Californiae0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“a single-sporangial culture of O. brassicae from lettuce plant grown in California transmitted only tobacco necrosis virus.”