Turnip mosaic virus (TuMV) is an economically important infecting a broad range of arable and vegetable crops many wild plant species. It also particular scientific interest as it has the broadest host any potyviruses, infects dicotyledonous monocotyledonous plants, transmitted by (>89) aphid species best adapted potyvirus to Arabidopsis thaliana. For these reasons been particularly well studie...

 Two potyviruses that infect sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) crops have been reported in Argentina. Sunflower chlorotic mottle virus (SuCMoV) is the most widely distributed one, with two strains: common and ring spot, which have been completely characterized. Sunflower mild mosaic virus (SuMMoV) that produces a chlorotic mild mosaic on sunflower commercial crops was detected in the rural area...

Plants of Senna occidentalis (sin. Cassia occidentalis) with mosaic symptoms were collected near a soybean (Glycine max) field where some plants exhibited symptoms of mosaic and blistering. A preliminary examination of leaf tissue from diseased S. occidentalis by electron microscopy revealed the presence of pinwheel inclusions as well as long flexuous particles, indicating the presence of a pot...

Spetz, C. 2003. Molecular studies on a complex of potyviruses infecting solanaceous crops, and some specific virus-host interactions. Doctor’s dissertation ISSN 1401-6249, ISBN 91-576-6452-8 This thesis constitutes a comprehensive analysis of the molecular and biological characteristics of three potyviruses (genus Potyvirus, family Potyviridae) naturally occurring in cultivated and wild species...

Lettuce mosaic, caused by the potyvirus LMV, is a serious viral disease of lettuce crops world-wide. Beside seed control, one of the leading strategies to control LMV is the use of the recessive resistance genes mo11 and mo12. In an attempt to characterize the functional role of the translation initiation factor eIF4E in lettuce susceptibility to LMV, we cloned Ls-eIF4E cDNAs from a collection ...