Plant Viruses
Online 
Descriptions and Lists from
the VIDE Database
Barley mosaic
virus
Index
Data collated by S.L. Bhattiprolu, 1991.
Nomenclature
ICTV decimal code
Host range and symptoms
First reported
in Hordeum vulgare; from Delhi, India; by Dhanraj and Raychaudhuri
(1969).
Natural host range and symptoms
Symptoms persist.
Symptoms mosaic and stunting.
- Hordeum vulgare - mosaic and stunting.
Transmission
Transmitted by a vector; an insect;
Rhopalosiphum maidis; Aphididae. Virus transmitted by mechanical
inoculation; transmitted by seed.
Geographical distribution
Found, but with no evidence of spread, in India.
Experimental host range
Few (<3) families susceptible.
Experimentally infected plants mostly show mosaic.
Diagnostically susceptible host species and symptoms
- Avena sativa, Hordeum vulgare, Triticum aestivum - mosaic in
systemically infected leaves.
Maintenance and propagation hosts
Avena sativa, Hordeum vulgare, Triticum aestivum.
Assay hosts (Local lesions or Whole plants)
Avena sativa (W), Hordeum
vulgare (W), Triticum aestivum (W).
Susceptible host
species
Families containing susceptible hosts
Sources of host-range data
Dhanraj
and Raychaudhuri (1969).
Physical and
biochemical properties
Properties of particles in sap
TIP:
53-55 °C. LIV: 0.33 days. DEP: log10 minus 2-3. Leaf sap contains few
virions.
Particle morphology
Virions isometric; 40 nm in diameter;
rounded in profile.
Cytopathology
Taxonomy and
relationships
Comments and
References
References
- Dhanraj, K.S. and
Raychaudhuri, S.P. (1969). Pl. Dis. Reptr 53: 766.
Cite this publication as:
Brunt, A.A., Crabtree, K., Dallwitz, M.J., Gibbs, A.J., Watson, L. and Zurcher, E.J. (eds.)
(1996 onwards).
`Plant Viruses Online: Descriptions and Lists from the VIDE Database.
Version: 20th August 1996.' URL
http://biology.anu.edu.au/Groups/MES/vide/
Dallwitz (1980)
and
Dallwitz, Paine and Zurcher (1993)
should also be cited.
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vide-manager@biology.anu.edu.au