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Descriptions and Lists from the VIDE Database

Fuchsia latent (?) carlavirus

Index

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

Data collated by R. Stace-Smith, 1991.

Nomenclature

Synonyms

fuchsia S virus.

Acronym

FLV

ICTV decimal code

14.0.T.1.019

Host range and symptoms

Natural host range and symptoms

Symptoms none.
• Fuchsia spp. - symptomless.

Transmission

Transmitted by means not involving a vector (in cuttings).

Geographical distribution

Found, but with no evidence of spread, in most Fuchsia cultivars.

Experimental host range

Few (<3) families susceptible.

Diagnostically susceptible host species and symptoms

• Fuchsia spp. - symptomless.

Diagnostically insusceptible host species

Chenopodium quinoa, Gomphrena globosa, Cucumis sativus.

Maintenance and propagation hosts

Fuchsia spp.

Susceptible host species

• Fuchsia speciosa × F. hybrida

Insusceptible host species

• Chenopodium amaranticolor
• Chenopodium quinoa
• Cucumis sativus
• Datura stramonium
• Gomphrena globosa
• Lycopersicon esculentum
• Nicotiana clevelandii
• Nicotiana debneyi
• Nicotiana glutinosa
• Vigna unguiculata

Families containing susceptible hosts

• Onagraceae (1/1)

Families containing insusceptible hosts

• Amaranthaceae (1/1)
• Chenopodiaceae (2/2)
• Cucurbitaceae (1/1)
• Leguminosae-Papilionoideae (1/1)
• Solanaceae (5/5)

Physical and biochemical properties

Particle morphology

Virions filamentous; not enveloped; usually flexuous; of 650 nm; 12 nm wide. Axial canal obvious. Basic helix obscure.

Cytopathology

Virions found in leaves and phloem parenchyma.

Taxonomy and relationships

Possible Carlavirus

Comments and References

References

• John, L.J., Stace-Smith, R. and Kadota, D.Y. (1980). Acta Hort. 110: 195.

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.