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Pea symptomless virus, a newly recognized strain of red clover mottle virus

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A virus contaminating a culture of pea enation mosaic virus was isolated and studied. The virus, tentatively named pea symptomless virus (PSV), was not aphid-borne but was readily transmitted by sap inoculation of Amaranthaceae, Chenopodiaceae and Leguminosae. Purified preparations of PSV contained isometric particles 26 nm in diameter, which sedimented as three components with sedimentation coefficients of 55, 94 and 118S, respectively, and contained ribonucleic acid with a molar base content of G 22%, A 26%, C 17%, U 34%.

PSV is a member of the cowpea mosaic group of plant viruses, is closely related to red clover mottle broad bean stain, and pea green mottle viruses, and protects plants against infection with red clover mottle virus. PSV, the viruses of broad bean stain, red clover mottle and pea green mottle, and possibly MF-virus, probably constitute a subgroup of the cowpea mosaic virus group and may even considered to be members of a single virus species.

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Een virus dat als verontreiniging voorkwam in een cultuur van het erwte-enatiemozaïekvirus werd geïsoleerd en bestudeerd. Het virus dat voorlopig met de naam ‘pea symptomless virus’ (PSV) wordt aangeduid, gaat met sap over en wordt niet door de bladluizenMyzus persicae enAcyrthosiphon pisum overgedragen.

Plantesoorten uit de families der Amaranthaceae, Chenopodiaceae en Leguminosae (Tabel 1) zijn vatbaar voor dit virus. Gezuiverde preparaten van PSV bevatten isometrische deeltjes met een diameter van 26 nm (Fig. 1) en bestonden uit drie fracties (met sedimentatieconstanten van 118,94 en 55S (Fig. 2). Voor de basenverhouding in het RNZ werd 22% guanine, 26% adenine, 17% cytosine en 34% uracil (Tabel 2) gevonden.

Het beschreven virus is serologisch zeer nauw verwant met het rode-klavervlekkenvirus (RCMV) en wat minder verwant met andere leden van de ‘cowpea mosaic virus’ (CPMV) groep, zoals het ‘broad bean stain virus’ (BBSV), en ‘pea green mottle virus’ (PGMV). De symptomen die PSV en RCMV veroorzaakten werden vergeleken (Tabel 1); RCMV veroorzaakte in alle gevallen heviger symptomen.

PSV is in staat om erwteplanten volledig tegen RCMV te beschermen indien de planten 9 dagen van te voren met eerstgenoemd virus geïnoculeerd waren. De auteurs concluderen uit hun werk dat PSV met BBSV, PGMV en RCMV een sub-groep binnen de CPMV-groep vormen, waartoe ook het MF-virus dat in Frankrijk is gevonden, zou kunnen worden gerekend.

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Mahmood, K., Horsten, J. & Peters, D. Pea symptomless virus, a newly recognized strain of red clover mottle virus. Netherlands Journal of Plant Pathology 78, 204–211 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01977320

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