Plant Virus and Virus Diseases in Indian Subcontinent
Nautiyal, K.P.
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Book ID : 37096
ISBN-10 : 81-7884-714-0 / 8178847140
ISBN-13 : 978-81-7884-714-6 / 9788178847146
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
2011
Edition : (First Edition)
Language : English
256p., 22 cm.
CONTENTS
DESCRIPTION
The Viruses also cause many important plant diseases and are responsible for huge losses in crop production and quality in all parts of the world infected plants may show a range of symptoms depending on the disease but often there is leaf yellowing (either of the whole leaf or in a pattern of stripes or blotches) leaf distortion (e.g. curling) and/or other growth distortions (e.g. stunting of the whole plant, abnormalities in flower or fruit formation) Iruses are restricted to a particular type of host. Some infect bacteria and are known as bacteriophages, whereas others are known that infect algae, protozoa fungi (mycoviruses) invertebrates, vertebrates or vascular plants However, some viruses that are transmitted between vertebrate or plant hosts by feeding insects (vectors can replicate within both their host and their vector.