Viral Diseases in Plant

Description

Plant virus is any of a number of agents that can cause plant disease. Plant viruses are of considerable economic importance because many of them infect crop and ornamental plants. Numerous plant viruses are rodlike and can be extracted readily from plant tissue and crystallized. The majority of them lack the fatty membrane found in many animal viruses, and all contain ribonucleic acid (RNA). This textbook on viral diseases of plants deals with a discussion of different plant viruses, their properties, and the corresponding diseases these viruses cause. It contains separate chapters on properties of plant viruses with symptoms, composition, morphology, nomenclature and modern classification, along with description of different viruses. It includes a list of host plants of every virus. It also discusses the development of new techniques that is used to characterize in detail the causal viruses of a number of plant virus diseases. Furthermore, it presents the plant virus serology, as well as the improved methods of virus isolation that allow the classification of viruses into related groups. This book will be invaluable to ecologists, environmentalists, agriculturalists, and other scientists interested in plant viruses. Biology students will also find this reference helpful.