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The word virus means poison or venom. When it is used in connection with a plant disease, it means a filterable virus, an infective principle or etiological agent so small it passes through filters that will retain bacteria. Virus diseases in man range from infantile paralysis to the common cold and in plants from “breaking” of tulip flowers to the deadly raspberry ringspot disease on the Malling Jewel variety of raspberry.
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Horst, R.K. (2013). Viruses, Viroids, Phytoplasmas. In: Westcott's Plant Disease Handbook. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2141-8_12
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