In the former, the change from crinkle to streak is induced by varietal susceptibility; in the latter, by passage of an original potato mosaic virus through tobacco before being used as an ...

In the 1840s, Reverend Miles Berkeley, also a botanist, identified the fungus behind Ireland’s potato blight ... their pioneering work on tobacco mosaic virus opened the door to a century ...

Depending on virus strain and potato variety, symptoms vary from mild mosaic to severe foliar necrosis. Often the primary symptoms from the initial infection differ from the secondary infection of ...

the potato virus Y, and the tobacco mosaic virus. The researchers have also expressed belief that RNA-based approaches can be extended to target fungal and bacterial diseases as well as insect pests.

Cucumber mosaic virus is a particularly devastating virus for crops. About 90 species of aphids transmit the virus, which affects more than 1,200 plant species. These include numerous agricultural ...