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- Title
Plant Disease Detectives I.D. New Sugar Beet Virus.
- Authors
Suszkiw, Jan
- Abstract
The article presents information on a research which investigated beet necrotic yellow vein virus (BNYVV). It has been the top soilborne nemesis of sugar beets, shrinking their sucrose yields by up to 40 percent. The plant disease causes rhizomania (crazy root), which is named for the thick beard of feathery hairs that sprout from the taproot of infected beets. Researchers at the U.S. Agricultural Research Service have discovered hexagonal particles of a mystery virus embedded within the cytoplasm of the infected plants' cells. After purification of the virus, the researchers cloned a DNA copy of the viral genome, which was sequenced.
- Subjects
UNITED States; PLANT diseases; SUGAR beets; BEET yellows virus; PLANT viruses; VIRAL genomes; UNITED States. Agricultural Research Service
- Publication
Agricultural Research, 2007, Vol 55, Issue 3, p13
- ISSN
0002-161X
- Publication type
Article