Silver Mottle Disease of Watermelon Caused by Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus
- 1 January 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Scientific Societies in Plant Disease
- Vol. 68 (11) , 1006-1008
- https://doi.org/10.1094/pd-69-1006
Abstract
The causal virus of the silver mottle disease that occurred in watermelon in Okinawa, Japan, was identified as tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) on the basis of particle morphology, host reactions, instability in crude sap, effects of sodium sulfite and L-cysteine on stability, and thrips transmissibility. This is the 1st report of TSWV naturally infecting Cucurbitaceae.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: