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Infectivity and Transmission of Fungal Viruses

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Fungal Viruses

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The discovery of viruses infecting Macromycetes by Hollings, in 1962, and later, of viruses infecting Micromycetes by Ellis and Kleinschmidt, in 1967, has opened a new field of research for many laboratories around the world. Indeed, the importance of research on mycoviruses — i.e., viruses that infect fungi — presents many different aspects: (1)mycoviruses are pathogens of the cultivated mushroom, Agaricus bisporus, and they have been associated with a disease called “La France disease”, responsible for serious yield losses; (2) mycoviruses are potential pathogens of fungi such as Penicillium sp. and Aspergillus sp. used by the microbiological industry and they may affect antibiotic production; (3) mycoviruses have been found in phytopathogenic fungi such as Pyricularia oryzae, Colletotrichum lindemuthianum, and Gaeumannomyces graminis, and they have been studied because of their possible use as biological control agents; (4) some of the dsRNA-containing mycoviruses are found in large amounts in their host cells, and therefore might be used for industrial production of dsRNA, which is an important interferon inducer in mammals (for a general review on mycoviruses see: Bozarth, 1972; Lemke and Nash, 1974; Hollings, 1978).

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  1. Station de Pathologie Végétale, INRA, 84140, Montfavet, France

    H. Lecoq

  2. Laboratoire de Cryptogamie, Université de Paris-Sud, Bât. 402, 91405, Orsay, France

    M. Boissonnet-Menès

  3. Station de Pathologie Végétale, INRA, 78000, Versailles, France

    P. Delhotal

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  1. Institut für Botanik II Arbeitsgruppe Pilzphysiologie, Universität Regensburg, Universitätsstraße 31, 8400, Regensburg, Germany

    H. P. Molitoris

  2. Virology Department, Glasshouse Crops Research Institute, Worthing Road, Littlehampton, West Sussex, BN16 3PU, GB

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  3. Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Cornell University, Tower Road, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA

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Lecoq, H., Boissonnet-Menès, M., Delhotal, P. (1979). Infectivity and Transmission of Fungal Viruses. In: Molitoris, H.P., Hollings, M., Wood, H.A. (eds) Fungal Viruses. Proceedings in Life Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67373-3_4

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