SUMMARY: Three similar and apparently previously unrecorded viruses were studied and found to be most like viruses of the turnip yellow mosaic group. Andean potato latent virus (APLV) was obtained from primitive cultivated potatoes collected in the high tropical Andes, dulcamara mottle virus (DMV) from Solanum dulcamara L. growing near Rothamsted, and Ononis yellow mosaic virus from Ononis repens L. growing in many parts of England. All three viruses are readily transmitted by sap inoculation; APLV and DMV are transmitted through the seed of infected plants; DMV is transmitted by the flea beetle Psylloides affinis Paykull. Plants infected by one of the viruses are not protected against infection by the others.
Purified preparations of these viruses have many common properties. Each virus has isometric particles 25-30 mμ in diameter, indistinguishable in appearance from one another and from the particles of turnip yellow mosaic virus. Preparations of each contain mainly two types of particles with sedimentation coefficients of about 115S and 55S, corresponding to infective nucleoprotein particles and non-infective “empty” particles respectively. Each contains nucleic acid with a molar base composition of about G 16% A 22% C 33% U 29%. The three viruses are serologically related; antisera titres are 8-128 times greater with homologous than with the heterologous viruses. No serological relationship was found between these viruses and turnip yellow mosaic, wild cucumber mosaic, cocoa yellow mosaic, squash mosaic and red clover mottle viruses.
Plants infected with APLV or DMV when sprayed with solutions of 2-thiouracil or 6-azauracil produced fewer nucleoprotein particles and more “empty” protein particles, than plants sprayed with water.
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