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Resistance to potato viruses M, S, X and the spindle tuber virus in tuber-bearingSolanum species

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On two separate occasions, some available accessions of tuber-bearingSolanum species were tested for resistance to potato viruses. Challenge inoculations were made mechanically with infective sap; and assessment was by sub-inoculation to differential host plants, supplemented by serological tests. In 1956–57, four accessions remained free from potato virus S (PVS), and nine remained free from PVM. In 1968–70, one or more clones of 11 accessions showed resistance to PVS—one of them,S. megistacrolobum, a diploid, apparently being hypersensitive. Resistance to PVX was found in seven accessions, and to PVM in two. There appeared to be resistance to the potato spindley tuber virus in five accessions.

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No attempt has been made to up-dateSolanum species nomenclature used by authors cited, nor that used on invoices from the Inter-Regional Potato Introduction Station, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin (to R. H. Larson, Nov. 12, 1955, and to R. H. Bagnall, May 5, 1967). (See publications 13, 26 re-taxonomy.)

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Bagnall, R.H. Resistance to potato viruses M, S, X and the spindle tuber virus in tuber-bearingSolanum species. American Potato Journal 49, 342–348 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02861779

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