| occurrence of cucumber mosaic virus on vanilla (vanilla planifolia andrews) in india. | cucumber mosaic virus (cmv) causing mosaic, leaf distortion and stunting of vanilla (vanilla planifolia andrews) in india was characterized on the basis of biological and coat protein (cp) nucleotide sequence properties. in mechanical inoculation tests, the virus was found to infect members of chenopodiaceae, cucurbitaceae, fabaceae and solanaceae. nicotiana benthamiana was found to be a suitable host for the propagation of cmv. the virus was purified from inoculated n. benthamiana plants and ne ... | 2005 | 16052072 |