Some properties of peanut clump, a newly discovered virus |
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| Authors: | J.-C. THOUVENEL M. DOLLET C. FAUQUET |
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| Affiliation: | Laboratoire de Virologie, Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique Outre-Mer (ORSTOM), B.P. V 51, Abidjan, République de Côte d' lvoire, West Africa |
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| Abstract: | A mechanically transmissible soil-borne virus causing peanut clump disease in Upper Volta is described. It infected mainly species of Chenopodia-ceae and was propagated in Chenopodium amaranticolor. Infectivity was lost from sap of C. amaranticolor after 10 min at 64 °C, and after dilution to 10-5 but not io-4. A purification procedure is described. The particles are rod-shaped and of two predominant lengths, 190 and 245 nm. The virus is not serologically related to tobacco rattle, pea early-browning, or soil-borne wheat mosaic viruses, or to a virus associated with a rhizomania-like disease of beet. |
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