Journal of Plant Pathology & Microbiology

Busari J

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• Research Article
  Preliminary Studies on Two Viruses Infecting Two Wild Plants: Talinum triangulare (Jacq) Willd and Desmodium tortuosum (SW) DC in Samaru, Zaria, Kaduna State
  Author(s): Daudu OAY, Yusuf L, Abejide DR, Busari J and Adeniyi KDaudu OAY, Yusuf L, Abejide DR, Busari J and Adeniyi K
  
  In other to find an alternative hosts of virus diseases of cowpea in Zaria area, two virus disease symptoms were observed on two wild plants growing near each other at the edge of an experimental field, Department of Biological Sciences, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. The virus isolate in Talinum triangulare was found not to be sap transmissible in all the buffers used at different molarities and pH values; although the virus was found to be seed transmissible in T. triangulare, and also transmissible through grafting to healthy looking seedlings of Vigna unguiculata var. IAR-01-1006. Also symptoms were not observed in whiteflies (Bemisia tabaci) inoculated seedlings of the test plants. The virus isolate in Desmodium tortuosum, however, was found to be sap transmissible to healthy looking seedlings of D. Tortuosum and a number of other plant diseases, especially members of Fabaceae f.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2157-7471.1000178

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