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Descriptions and Lists from the VIDE Database

Canna yellow mottle badnavirus

Index

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

Data collated by A.A. Brunt and S. Yamashita, 1987.

Nomenclature

Synonyms

canna mottle virus.

Acronym

CaYMV

ICTV decimal code

07.0.1.0.004

Host range and symptoms

Natural host range and symptoms

Symptoms persist.
• Canna spp. - veinal yellowing or necrosis and mottling.

Geographical distribution

Spreads in Japan and the USA.

Experimental host range

Experimentally infected plants mostly show chlorosis, mottle.

Diagnostically susceptible host species and symptoms

• Canna spp. - systemic veinal mottling and chlorosis.

Maintenance and propagation hosts

Canna spp.

Susceptible host species

• Canna

Families containing susceptible hosts

• Cannaceae (1/1)

Physical and biochemical properties

Properties of particles in sap

Leaf sap contains few virions.

Particle morphology

Virions bacilliform; not enveloped; 120-130 nm in length; 28 nm wide.

Cytopathology

Virions found in vascular parenchyma; in cytoplasm. Inclusions present in infected cells; are membranous bodies; they contain virions.

Taxonomy and relationships

Probably Badnavirus

Comments and References

References

• Lockhart, B.E.L. (1988). Acta Hort. 234: 72.
• Yamashita, S., Natsuaki, T., Doi, Y. and Yora, K. (1979). Ann. Phytopath. Soc. Japan 45: 85.
• Yamashita, S., Natsuaki, T., Doi, Y. and Yora, K. (1985). Ann. Phytopath. Soc. Japan 51: 642.

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.