New Zealand Journal of Botany abstracts

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AN UNUSUAL STRAIN OF TOBACCO MOSAIC VIRUS FROM ORCHIDS

A. D. Thomson

Plant Diseases Division, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Christchurch

B. A. Smirk

Microbiology Department, University of Otago Medical School, Dunedin

Abstract A strain of tobacco mosaic virus was isolated from 11 varieties of Cymbidium orchids. This strain induces minute lesions on Nicotiana glutinosa L., but does not infect N. tabacum L. It is not closely related serologically to a common strain of tobacco mosaic virus.

N.Z. J1 Bot. 5: 197-202. (Received for publication 30 July 1965)

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