Japanese Journal of Phytopathology
Online ISSN : 1882-0484
Print ISSN : 0031-9473
ISSN-L : 0031-9473
Studies on cucumber mosaic virus
III. Host range.
Yasuo KOMURO
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1958 Volume 23 Issue 5 Pages 235-239

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1) Various plant species, as many as 260 species in 74 families, were tested for susceptibility to the ordinary strain of the cucumber mosaic virus. Inoculations were made by the juice-rubbing method using carborundum powder. Plants in 117 species belonging to 39 families were infected by the virus. Local lesions developed on the inoculated leaves of plants in 20 species belonging to 9 families; systemic infection did not occur in these plants.
2) Forty-five species and varieties of plants, previously not reported as hosts of the cucumber mosaic virus, were found to be infected in this experiment. These are Chrysanthemum coronarium, Cucumis melo var. Conomon, C. melo var. Makuwa, Cucurbita moschata, Rubia cordifolia, Sesamum indicum, Veronica arvensis, Verbascum Thapsus, Linaria bipartita, Torenia crustacea, Nicotiana longiflora, Datura Tatula, Tubocapsicum anomalum, Solanum sisymbrifolium, Mentha arvensis, Cynoglossum amabile, Cuscuta japonica, C. sojagena, Ipomoea Nil, Cryptotaenia canadensis, Daphne odora, Viola mandshurica, Abelmoschus esculentus, Papaver orientale, P. Rhoeas, Argemone mexicana, Stellaria media, Silene Armeria, Gypsophyla elegans, Dianthus chinensis, D. Caryophyllus, D. superbus, Lychnis coronaria, Cerastium vulgatum, Portulaca oleracea, Mesembryanthemum spectabile, Phytolacca esculenta, Gomphrena globosa, Amaranthus tricolor, Chenopodium stenophyllum, C. Anthelminticum, Zingiber mioga, Musa basjoo, Lilium tigrinum and Colocasia Antiquorum. Among these, there are several plant species in which successful isolation of the virus from naturally occurring mosaic plants were reported in Europe and America, although no inoculation trials to the healthy plants were reported.
3) Negative results were obtained with Centaurea Cyanus, Ambrosia artemisiaefolia, Valeriana officinalis, Daucus Carota, Tropaeolum majus, Pelar gonium inquinans, Tulipa Gesneriana, Hyacinthus orientalis, Lilium cepa, Secale cereale and Triticum vulgare. These species were reported to be susceptible by previous workers. On the other hand, Papaver orientale which was listed as non-host in the U.S.A was infected in the present experiment.
4) It is considered that in the cucumber mosaic virus, are involved many strains which differ in their host range as well as in symptom expression on certain host plants. Consideration of the virus host range with special reference to plant phylogeny will be given in a later paper.
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