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TP 83-11078
From: Biol. Abstr. in Russian, Vol. 75, 1973, pp. 468-472.
Neumenko, L.O.
IDENTIFICATION OF MAIZE MOSAIC VIRUS IN THE UKRAINE. (Identifikatsiya zbudnika mozaiki kukurudzi na ukraini).
Translated from Russian
Prepared for the OICD, IRD, United States Department of Agriculture and National Science Foundation, Washington D.C., by Saad Publications (Translations Division), Karachi, Pakistan.
1984
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IDENTIFICATION OF THE MAIZE MOSAIC VIRUS IN THE UKRAINE
by
L. O. Naumenko
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Summary:
Identification of the maize mosaic agent is performed studying its host plants, ways of transmission properties in sap and morphology.
Comparison of these properties with those described in literature resulted in establishing the fact that the virus isolated in the Ukraine is identical to that described in Europe (the maize mosaic virus) and the USA (the maize dwarf mosaic virus) as well as to the maize mosaic virus which is distributed in the Krasnodar territory.
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Viral diseases of the maize are very common in different countries all over the world where this crop is being cultivated, and cause huge economic losses.
In the works by foreign researchers special attention is paid to the investigation to viral diseases of the maize (1-3). In the Soviet Union, maize viruses have not been fully studied. For the first time in 1964, T.S. Dubonosov and I. V. Panarin observed mosaic virus on maize crops in the Krasnodar region (4, 5). I.I. Mitrofanov has found the mosaic virus widespread in this region and described some of its properties (6, 7).
Apart from the fact that significant areas in Ukraine are sown with maize there is now word in literature on viral infections occurring in maize. The aim of our work was to