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Winter wheat Russian mosaic (?) cytorhabdovirus

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

Synonyms

Russian winter wheat mosaic virus, cereal mosaic virus.

Acronym

WWRMV (WWMV)

ICTV decimal code

62.U.P.0.055

Host range and symptoms

Natural host range and symptoms

• Triticum aestivum - mosaic leaf symptoms.

Transmission

Transmitted by a vector; an insect; Psammotettix striatus, P. alienus; Delphacidae. Transmitted in a persistent manner (circulative). Virus transmitted congenitally to the progeny of the vector; not transmitted by mechanical inoculation.

Geographical distribution

Spreads in the former USSR.

Diagnostically susceptible host species and symptoms

• Triticum aestivum - mosaic leaf symptoms.

Susceptible host species

• Triticum aestivum

Families containing susceptible hosts

• Gramineae (1/1)

Physical and biochemical properties

Particle morphology

Virions rhabdo- or bullet-shaped; enveloped; with a clear modal length; of 260 nm; 60 nm wide (Razvjazkina and Polyakova, 1967; 1969).

Cytopathology

Virions found in leaves; in cytoplasm.

Taxonomy and relationships

Probable Cytorhabdovirus: Rhabdoviridae

Comments and References

References

• Razvjaskina, G.M. and Poljakova, G.P. (1969). Proc. 6th Conf. Czech. Pl. Virologists, Prague 1967. Czech. Acad. Sci., Prague, p. 129.
• Sukhov, K.S. (1943). C.R. (Dokl.) Acad. Sci. URSS 41: 73.
• Shaskolskaya (1962). Zool. Zh. 41: 717.

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.