Fritillaria thumbergii—a new host of Potato leafroll virus in China
S. Tu A C , C. Qin B and C. Chen BA Laboratory of Molecular Biology, College of Life Sciences, Heilongjiang University, 74 Xue-fu Road, Harbin 150080, PRC.
B Fishery College, Huazhong Agricultural University, 1 Lion Street, Hongshan District, Wuhan 430070, PRC.
C Corresponding author. Email: shanjuntufupjv@yahoo.ca
Australasian Plant Disease Notes 1(1) 31-32 https://doi.org/10.1071/DN06014
Submitted: 7 March 2006 Accepted: 8 September 2006 Published: 24 October 2006
Abstract
The medicinal plant Fritillaria thumbergii was confirmed for the first time as a new host of Potato leafroll virus (PLRV) by reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). This is the first report of Fritillaria thumbergii as a host of PLRV in China.
Acknowledgements
We are very grateful to Professor Mounir G. Abouhaidar (Laboratory of Virology, University of Toronto, Canada) for his help when preparing the manuscript. Financial support from the Initial Scientific Research Grants of the Heilongjiang University to Shanjun Tu is gratefully acknowledged.
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