cucumber mosaic


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Related to cucumber mosaic: Brome mosaic virus

cucumber mosaic

n.
A disease of numerous vegetable and horticultural crops, caused by an RNA virus and characterized by mottled and malformed leaves and fruit.
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Prevalence and distribution of Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) in major chilli growing areas of Pakistan.
Natural occurrence and host range studies of cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) infecting ornamental species in Rawalpindi-Islamabad area of Pakistan.
For example, encapsulated doxorubicin into cucumber mosaic virus was targeted to folate-expressing cancer cells in vivo.
Calendula officinalis plants have been found to be affected by Cucumber mosaic virus (Lisa & Della-Valle, 1979; Naqvi & Samad, 1985), Turnip mosaic virus (Lisa et al., 1979) and Tobacco mosaic virus (Hristova et al ., 1994).
Evaluation of the pathogenic response of some Okra lines to Cucumber mosaic virus.
Carr's team found that tomato plants infected with cucumber mosaic virus gave off a different chemical cocktail than noninfected plants--and that bumblebees preferred the infected plants' brew.
One virus Wang has studied -- the cucumber mosaic virus -- affects pumpkin, squash and gourds in 1,200 species in over 100 plant families.
Multipik (Harris) produces well and the plants are resistant to Cucumber Mosaic, which can appear with summer heat and put ugly green mottling on an otherwise gorgeous yellow squash.
La biobalistica tambien ha permitido con exito la transmision del Virus del mosaico del pepino (Cucumber mosaic virus- CMV-Cucumovirus) en plantas de gladiolo (Aebigl et al., 2005).
The rusty plum aphid can also indirectly damage plants by vectoring various plant viruses, including cucumber mosaic virus (CMV), watermelon mosaic virus (WMV) (Coudriet 1962), sugarcane mosaic virus (SCMV) (Harborne 1988), bermuda grass mosaic virus (BgMV) (Masumi et al.
It was shown that PGPR strain which induced resistance in cucumber against fungal and bacterial disease can also induced resistance in cucumber and tomato plants against cucumber mosaic virus [20].