NOTA
Microscopia electrônica do vírus do mosaico comum da mandioca nos tecidos foliares de diferentes plantas hospedeiras1
Electron microscopy of the cassava common mosaic virus in the tissues of different host plant species
Ângela Tascon2; E. W. Kitajima3,4; A. S. Costa4
SUMMARY
Cassava common mosaic virus (CCMV), an elongated virus placed in the morphological group of the potato virus X, infects, under experimental conditions, several other host plant species, besides cassava.
Electron microscopic observations were made on thin sections of leaf tissues from both symptomless host Euphorbia prunifolia, and local lesion hosts Chenopodium quinoa, C. amaranticolor, Malva parviflora and Datura stramonium. Loose aggregates of filamentous particles, of varied size and shape, were consistently found in the cytoplasm of most parenchymatous and epidermal cells. These findings are consistent with those previously described in CCMV-infected cassava leaf tissues, and stress the view that the elongated particles components of the fibrous inclusion represent CCMVin situ.
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Recebido para publicação em 24 de outubro de 1974.
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Data do Fascículo
1975