Plant Viruses Online   

Descriptions and Lists from the VIDE Database

Fescue (?) alphacryptovirus

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

FCV

ICTV decimal code

49.0.3.T.003

Host range and symptoms

Natural host range and symptoms

• Festuca pratensis - symptomless.

Transmission

Virus not transmitted by mechanical inoculation; not transmitted by grafting; transmitted by seed.

Geographical distribution

Found, but with no evidence of spread, in Italy.

Susceptible host species

• Festuca pratensis

Families containing susceptible hosts

• Gramineae (1/1)

Physical and biochemical properties

Particle morphology

Virions isometric; not enveloped; 30 nm in diameter; rounded in profile; with a conspicuous capsomere arrangement.

Biochemical properties

Genome consists of RNA; double-stranded.

Taxonomy and relationships

Possible Alphacryptovirus: Partitiviridae

Comments and References

General comments

The isolate orginally studied is possibly a complex of two or more viruses.

References

• Boccardo, G., Lisa, V. and Milne, R.G. (1983). In: Double-Stranded RNA Viruses, p. 425; eds R.W. Compans and D.H.L. Bishop. Elsevier, New York.

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.