Identification of Tomato aspermy virus as the cause of yellow mosaic and flower deformation of chrysanthemums in India

S. K. Raj; S. Kumar; S. Choudhari

doi:10.1071/DN07001

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Identification of Tomato aspermy virus as the cause of yellow mosaic and flower deformation of chrysanthemums in India

S. K. Raj ^A ^B , S. Kumar ^A and S. Choudhari ^A

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^A Molecular Virology Laboratory, National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow-226001, India.

^B Corresponding author. Email: skraj2@rediffmail.com

Australasian Plant Disease Notes 2(1) 1-2 https://doi.org/10.1071/DN07001
Submitted: 20 July 2006 Accepted: 29 November 2006 Published: 1 February 2007

Abstract

Using indirect ELISA, RT-PCR and coat protein gene sequence analysis, Tomato aspermy virus is identified as the cause of yellow mosaic and flower deformation of Chrysanthemum morifolium cultivars in India.

Acknowledgements

The authors express gratitude to the Director, NBRI, Lucknow for facilities; Dr S. K. Dutta, head, Floriculture for providing infected samples of chrysanthemum; Department of Science and Technology (DST), New Delhi for financial support and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi for fellowship to S. Kumar.

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