Abstract
In 1983 and 1987/88 two limited outbreaks of zucchini yellow mosaic virus in cucumber and zucchini squash occurred in the Westland glasshouse district in the Netherlands, mainly in glasshouses. The disease could be eradicated and has not recurred so far. In both cases a relatively mild but still highly pathogenic strain of the virus was involved. Diseased plants of zucchini yielded severely distorted or no fruits and it was difficult to obtain seeds from infected plants. Two out of 4196 seedlings grown in isolation from seed from inoculated zucchini plants showed symptoms and contained the virus, indicating that the virus can be transmitted via seed but at very low rate. This explains the erratic incidence and international distribution of the virus.
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Schrijnwerkers, C.C.F.M., Huijberts, N. & Bos, L. Zucchini yellow mosaic virus; two outbreaks in the Netherlands and seed transmissibility. Netherlands Journal of Plant Pathology 97, 187–191 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01995967
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