Sorghum Stunt Mosaic
- 1 January 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Scientific Societies in Plant Disease
- Vol. 65 (1) , 84-86
- https://doi.org/10.1094/pd-65-84
Abstract
Symptoms of a virus-like disease of sorghum in the Imperial Valley of California [USA] included chlorotic and necrotic mottling and streaking of leaves and severe stunting. EM of leaf dips and sections showed bacilliform particles measuring 68 .times. 220 nm, and transmission tests showed that the leafhopper, Graminella sonora, was a vector. The virus was transmitted by leafhoppers to sorghum [Sorghum vulgare], corn [Zea mays] and wheat [Triticum aestivum] but not mechanically transmitted to any plant tested. The name sorghum stunt mosaic is proposed for this apparently new disease.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: