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Lionel Leslie Stubbs: pioneer of Australian plant virology

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‘Have faith in ecologically basedresearch for which there will always be a need. Above all, don’t become so obsessed by your “tools of trade” that the detection of a dividedgenome assumes more importance than the solution of a problem. LLS 1994’.

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  • Stubbs, L.L. (1954) — Lettuce mosaic virus disease. Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Victoria 52: 259–264.

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  • Stubbs, L.L. (1955a) — Retention of carrot motley dwarf virus in Cavariella aegopodii following a moulting. Journal of the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science 21: 267–268.

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  • Stubbs, L.L. (1955d) — The problem of virus introduction in nursery stock. Report of the Plant Disease Conference (AAC/CSLRO), Hawkesbury Agricultural College, NSW, June/July 1955, pp. 136–140, 149–154, 167–171.

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  • Stubbs, L.L. (1957) — A comparison of three low persistence viruses of strawberry. Australian Journal of Agricultural Research 8: 652–658.

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  • Stubbs, L.L. and O’Loughlin, G.T. (1962) — Climatic elimination of mosaic spread in lettuce seed crops in the Swan Hill region of the Murray Valley. Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture and Animal Husbandy 2: 16–19.

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  • Price, R.D. and Stubbs, L.L. (1963) — An investigation of the barley yellow dwarf virus as a primary or associated cause of premature ripening or “dead-heads” in wheat. Australian Journal of Agricu1turalResearch 14: 154–168,

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  • Stubbs, L.L. and Walbran, W.I. (1963) — Accumulation of nitrate in oats infected with barley yellow dwarf virus. Australian Journal of Agricultural Research 14:737–741.

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  • Stubbs, L.L. and Meagher (1965) — A virosis-like proliferation (Witches’ broom) of lucerne (Medicago sativa L.) caused by eriophyid mite (Aceria medicaginis Keifer). Australian Journal of Agricultural Research 16: 125–129.

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  • Smith, P.R., Stubbs, L.L. and Sutherland, J.L. (1965) — Internal browning of tomato fruit induced by a late infection of Tobacco Mosaic Virus. Australian Journal of Experimenta1 Agriculture and Animal Husbandy 5: 75–79.

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  • Stubbs, L.L. (1966a) Inactivation of viruses in plants grown in a high-temperature environment. Working Papers of the Australian Plant Pathology Conference (AACICSIRO), Toowoomba, Queensland, November 1966, pp. 1–11–16,

  • Stubbs, L.L. (1966b) — Biological control of Cavariella aegopodii Scopoli by an introduced parasite, Aphidius salicis Haliday. Working Papers of the Australian Plant Pathology Conference (AACICSIRO), Toowoomba, Queensland, November 1966, pp. 1–48–49.

  • Stubbs, L.L. (1966c) — Apparent elimination of citrus exocortis virus by heat therapy and shoot-tip propagation. Working Papers of the Australian Plant Pathology Conference (AACICSIRO), Toowoomba, Queensland, November 1966, pp. 1–55–56.

  • Stubbs, L.L. (1968) — Lettuce necrotic yellows virus. Abstracts of Papers of the First International Congress of Plant Pathology London, July 1968, p. 195.

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  • Stubbs, L.L. (1971) — The assessment of economic loss caused by plant pathogens. Working Papers of the Australian Plant Pathology Conference (AACI CSIRO), Hobart, Tasmania, November 1971, pp. 1.1–1.4.

  • Stubbs, L.L. and Smith P.R. (1971) — The association of Prunus necrotic ringspot, prune dwarf and dark green sunken mottle viruses in the resetting and decline disease of peach. Australian Journal ofAgricultural Research 22: 771–785.

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  • Burgess, L.W., Ogle, H.J., Edgerton, J.P., Stubbs, L.L. and Nelson, P.E. (1973) — The biology of fungi associated with root rot of subterranean clover in Victoria. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 86: 119–128.

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  • Stubbs, L.L. (1975) — The need for greater public awareness of the importance of plant diseases. Australian Plant Pathology Society Newsletter 4: 1–3.

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    D. G. Parbery

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Parbery, D.G., Grebela, R.S. Lionel Leslie Stubbs: pioneer of Australian plant virology. Australasian Plant Pathology 25, 261–270 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1071/AP96049

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