SOME EFFECTS OF CHANGING TEMPERATURE AND OF VIRUS INHIBITORS ON INFECTION BY CUCUMBER MOSAIC VIRUS

Whereas the spinach strain of cucumber mosaic virus fails to multiply and cause symptoms in tobacco plants kept above 30° C., the yellow strain infects at 36° C. and causes more severe symptoms than at 20° C. Increasing the temperature up to 28° C. increases the initial rate at which the spinach strain multiplies, but the virus later reaches much higher concentrations in leaves at lower temperatures, presumably because it is rapidly inactivated at 28° C. Exposing inoculated plants to 36° C. for 6 hr. decreases the number of infections by the spinach strain when the exposure starts within 6 hr. of inoculation, but not afterwards.
Pancreatic ribonuclease inhibits infections by strains of cucumber mosaic virus; inhibition is greatest when the enzyme is present in the inoculum, and when applied to inoculated leaves its effect decreases rapidly with increasing time after inoculation.
Infection by and the multiplication of strains of cucumber mosaic virus in tobacco are only slightly affected by thiouracil and greatly by azaguanine, whereas strains of tobacco mosaic virus are inhibited much more by thiouracil than by azaguanine. Like tobacco mosaic virus, cucumber mosaic virus multiplies more when inoculated leaves are floated in nutrient solutions than in water, but unlike tobacco mosaic virus, its multiplication is not inhibited by thiouracil more in nutrient solutions than in water.     

SOME EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE AND OF VIRUS INHIBITORS ON INFECTION OF FRENCH-BEAN LEAVES BY RED CLOVER MOTTLE VIRUS

Keeping French-bean plants before inoculation at 36, 32 or 28°C. for 1–2 days increased their susceptibility to infection with red clover mottle virus, but longer exposures to 36 and 32°C. decreased susceptibility. Susceptibility increased most rapidly at 36°C. The number of infections was unaffected by changes in post-inoculation temperatures between 12 and 24°C., but decreased above 24°C. The rate virus multiplied increased with increase of temperature up to 28°C., but the maximum virus concentrations reached at 18, 24 and 28°C. were very similar and above the maximum reached at 30°C.
Thiouracil inhibited infection slightly but neither it nor azaguanine affected the multiplication of red clover mottle virus in French bean. Trichothecin inhibited infection and interfered with virus accumulation. Inhibition of infection was associated with macroscopic injury to the leaves, and washing leaves up to 1 hr. after inoculation prevented both inhibition and leaf damage. Virus multiplication was not resumed when leaves were transferred from trichothecin solutions to water.     

SOME EFFECTS OF NITROGEN SUPPLY ON THE INFECTION OF TOMATO PLANTS WITH TOMATO SPOTTED WILT VIRUS

The susceptibility of tomato plants to systemic infection by tomato spotted wilt virus was increased by increasing nitrogen supply to levels above that optimal for growth. The virus content, estimated by local-lesions counts, was also raised by increasing nitrogen. The period between inoculation and the appearance of systemic symptoms was decreased by increasing nitrogen to a point slightly greater than the optimal level for growth, but increased by additional applications.
Infected plants receiving more nitrate or ammonium compounds than were needed for optimal growth showed abnormal leaf symptoms and no bronzing. N, P and Mg analyses showed that these symptoms were related primarily to nitrogen content. Such leaves contained more virus than bronzed leaves.     

LEAF TRICHOMES OF SOME PARTHENIUM SPECIES

Guayule (Parthenium argentatum), a native shrub of the Chihuahuan desert, contains rubber. Guayule has been crossed with other Parthenium species in an attempt to improve its agronomic characteristics. The resulting hybrids show intermediate morphologies. Each Parthenium species has a characteristic combination of leaf trichomes. In order to recognize the contribution of each parent in future studies of hybrids, characteristics of leaf trichomes of the following Parthenium species were studied: P. tomentosum, P. fruticosum, P. Schottii and P. rollinsianum. All species studied had two or more types of trichomes, and, in some species, trichomes of upper and lower epidermal surfaces were different. The prominent trichomes on upper epidermis of P. tomentosum and P. fruticosum were simple, uniseriate, conical trichomes, which also were observed on both epidermal surfaces of P. Schottii. Extremely long, narrow, simple, whiplike, trichomes formed a dense cover on both surfaces of P. rollinsianum and on the lower surfaces of P. tomentosum and P. fruticosum. Simple, uniseriate, cylindrical trichomes, and biseriate, glandular trichomes were observed in all four species.     

SOME EFFECTS OF A PLANT VIRUS ON NUCLEAR DIVISION

This paper records some observations on the effect of the virus of aspermy disease of tomato on the formation of the mega- and micro-spores of the plant. The obvious interference by the virus in the normal meiotic processes suggests that this is the cause of the non-formation of seed in infected plants. It is suggested that the interference by virus with nuclear divisions may be more widespread and of greater biological significance than is at present realized.     

EFFECTS OF TOBACCO MOSAIC VIRUS ON EARLY LEAF DEVELOPMENT IN TOBACCO

Tepfer , Sanford S. (U. Oregon, Eugene.), and Meyer Chessin . Effects of tobacco mosaic virus on early leaf development in tobacco. Amer. Jour. Bot. 46(7): 496–509. Illus. 1959.—At certain stages of infection, tobacco mosaic virus causes the formation of highly abnormal tobacco leaves classified here as narrow-bladed leaves and “shoestring” leaves. The development and anatomy of these types are described. The “shoestring” leaf in its extreme form is entirely radial in symmetry, with no vestige of a lamina. This suppression of dorsiventrality is expressed to a lesser degree in narrow-bladed leaves and in transitional forms. The lack of or reduction of dorsiventrality results directly from the absence of or reduced activity of the marginal meristems of the leaf primordium. There is a general reduction in meristematic activity in the primordium that causes reduced length as well as reduced laminal development.     

营养物质对两种炭疽菌潜伏侵染的影响

通过不同浓度的几种糖类对潜伏侵染在青香蕉果实中的colletotrichum musae和芒果果实中的colletotichum gloeosporioides的菌体的影响进行了测定,结果表明,高浓度淀粉可极显著地提高两种炭疽菌的孢子萌发率,并有利于附着胞和分生孢子的形成。单糖和二糖在较低浓度时有利于孢子萌发和产孢,不利于附着胞形成。未成熟果实的坚硬结构和高淀粉含量为病菌提供了以附着胞形式潜伏侵染在寄主中的条件。     

水分胁迫和胁迫后复水对玉米叶片生长速率的影响

玉米叶片延伸速率(LER)对水分状况的变化很敏感。快速干旱处理,水分消耗迅速,LER从最大到零需5h,叶水势改变0.5～0.6 MPa,缓慢干旱处理,水分消耗较慢,LER从最大到零需20h,叶水势改变1 MPa。缓慢干旱植株叶片成熟部位的渗透势,在任何LER下,均比快速干旱叶片更负。LER为零时,快速干旱叶渗透势为-1.3 MPa,缓慢干旱为一1.6MPa左右。短时间水分胁迫后复水,LER迅速增加,有部分补偿前期胁迫减少的生长量能力;长时间水分胁迫后复水,LER在6 h内不可能恢复到正常水平。     

温度和水分状况对几种不同类型植物叶片水势和延伸生长的影响

在田间条件下研究了温度、相对湿度、土壤水分对玉米、高粱、茄子、豇豆、河北杨和泡桐六种植物LER2)和ψWL3)日变化的影响。结果表明,ψWL日变化呈正弦曲线,即早晨、晚上高,中午低;土壤水分亏缺,中午大气ψWV4)愈低,ψWL降低愈多。在土壤供水良好的条件下,玉米、高粱、河北杨、泡桐叶片生长与温度密切相关,因此白天生长快,晚上生长慢;若中午ψWV太低,生长减慢,使叶片生长呈双峰曲线,即午前及18:00左右生长快。若土壤水分亏缺,白天ψWV太低,白天生长慢,晚上生长快。茄子和豇豆叶片生长对水分亏缺更敏感,晚上生长快,白天生长慢,干旱处理叶片在白天中午有收缩现象。     

EFFECTS OF DARKNESS ON THE CONSTITUTION OF TOBACCO LEAVES AND SUSCEPTIBILITY TO VIRUS INFECTION

An attempt was made to find the causes of increased susceptibility to virus infection when tobacco plants are kept in the dark before inoculation. The changes in certain nitrogen fractions, viz. insoluble-N, amino-N, amide-N, ammonia-N and nitrate-N, and in dry matter and water content were followed in tobacco plants subjected to a period of darkness before inoculation with tobacco aucuba mosaic virus. Only nitrate-N was strongly correlated with the susceptibility to infection, but the evidence suggests that the correlation is indirect and not causal.
Dry matter and water content, determined either as dry matter percentage of fresh weight or measured separately on a leaf-disk basis Ivere found to vary directly with variation in susceptibility.     

THE EFFECTS OF INFECTION WITH TOBACCO MOSAIC VIRUS ON THE PHOTOSYNTHESIS OF TOBACCO LEAVES

The rate of photosynthesis of tobacco leaves infected with the Rothamsted type culture of tobacco mosaic virus was lower than that of comparable healthy tobacco leaves. The lower rate was inferred from Net Assimilation Rates of whole plants and confirmed by direct comparisons of photosynthetic rates of inoculated and healthy leaves. The effect began within 1 hr. of inoculation. It was not caused by an effect of the virus on the stomata, and inactivated virus inoculum did not change the rates. The results indicate either a more rapid movement of virus from the epidermis into the chlorenchyma than has been previously recorded or an effect of virus infection at a site distant from the cells containing virus.