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Descriptions and Lists from the VIDE Database

Canary reed mosaic (?) potyvirus

Index

• Nomenclature
• Host range, transmission and symptoms
• Physical and biochemical properties
• Taxonomy and relationships
• Comments and References

Data collated by A.A. Brunt, 1991.

Nomenclature

Acronym

CRMV

ICTV decimal code

57.0.1.T.012

Host range and symptoms

Natural host range and symptoms

Symptoms persist.
• Phalaris arundinacea - mosaic symptoms in leaves.

Transmission

Transmitted by a vector; an insect; Myzus persicae; Aphididae. Transmitted in a non-persistent manner. Virus transmitted by mechanical inoculation.

Geographical distribution

Spreads in Japan.

Experimental host range

Few (<3) families susceptible.

Diagnostically susceptible host species and symptoms

• Lolium multiflorum, Phalaris arundinacea - mosaic leaf symptoms.

Maintenance and propagation hosts

Lolium multiflorum, Phalaris arundinacea.

Assay hosts (Local lesions or Whole plants)

Lolium multiflorum (W), Phalaris arundinacea (W).

Susceptible host species

• Lolium multiflorum
• Phalaris arundinacea

Families containing susceptible hosts

• Gramineae (2/2)

Physical and biochemical properties

Properties of particles in sap

TIP: 50 °C. LIV: 1 days. DEP: log₁₀ minus 5.

Particle morphology

Virions filamentous; not enveloped; usually straight; with no clear modal length; of 700-800 nm.

Taxonomy and relationships

unassigned potyvirus

Comments and References

References

• Toriyama, S. and Yora, K. (1972). In: Virus Diseases of Wild Grasses and Cereal Crops in Japan. University of Tokyo Press, Tokyo, Japan.

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: 20^th August 1996.' URL http://biology.anu.edu.au/Groups/MES/vide/

Dallwitz (1980) and Dallwitz, Paine and Zurcher (1993) should also be cited.