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Adaptation of plum pox virus to a herbaceous host (Pisum sativum) following serial passages.
The Journal of general virology - 1 Oct 2007
Wallis Christopher M, Stone Andrew L, Sherman Diana J, Damsteegt Vernon D, Gildow Fred E, Schneider William L
Abstract excerpt
Plum pox virus (PPV) populations from peaches are able to adapt consistently to herbaceous hosts, characterized by a reduction in time to symptom development, increases in inoculation efficiency and increased titres. PPV adaptation was studied by using pea (Pisum sativum) as an alternative host. Two isolates of PPV from peaches were inoculated and passaged in peas ten times using either aphid or mechanical...
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