Annals of Applied Biology · 1987 · 37 citations · 7 references
AgricultureCrop SciencesMicrobiologyPlant VirologyPlant-microbe InteractionsVector-borne DiseasesPlant Virus Disease ManagementPlant Virus ResistancePlant Virus TransmissionPlant VirusesViral InfectionsVirus-host InteractionsBarley CultivationControl Of Vector PopulationsVector-mediated ResistanceVector-plant-virus InteractionsViral Diseases Of CropsViral Infection ProcessesVirus DiseasesVirus Production
SUMMARY A viruliferous isolate of the fungal vector Polymyxa graminis was grown on roots of barley cultivars immune or susceptible to barley yellow mosaic virus (BaYMV). Zoospores or resting spores of the vector produced on different cultivars were then inoculated to a virus‐susceptible test cultivar. Although the vector established in all treatments, transmission of BaYMV was rare and usually nil from immune cultivars; amounts of virus detected serologically in their roots were very low, thus showing that resistance was to virus multiplication. If immune cultivars decrease the virus content of vector populations in the field, this would have important implications for disease control.
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