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THE discovery by Dr. B. Kassanis that 90 per cent of plants in two stocks of King Edward contained only paracrinkle virus and were free from virus S suggests that virus S entered King Edward stocks later than did paracrinkle virus (virus M). The King Edward used by us1 was possibly derived from Salaman's original material, as the plants investigated were the descendants of occasional Red King mutants found in a stock being propagated by the National Institute of Agricultural Botany and which had originally been supplied by Salaman2. Similarly, the King Edward stock investigated by Bagnall, Larson and Walker3 in the United States, and which also contained both viruses S and M, was obtained indirectly from Salaman. This suggests that the stock of King Edward used by Salaman and Le Pelley4 may have contained both viruses S and M, although, of course, stocks at the National Institute of Agricultural Botany and those in the United States could have picked up virus S at a later date.
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HOWARD, H., WAINWRIGHT, J. Potato Virus M and Paracrinkle. Nature 188, 688–689 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/188688b0
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