Plant Virology
Author: Adrian J. Gibbs
Publisher: Halsted Press
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780470266373
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The history and scope of plant virology. Some plant viruses and their names. Effects of viruses on plants. Experimental transmission. The composition and structure of the particles of plant viruses. The purification of virus particles, and some properties of purified preparations. Infectivity assay. Serological methods. Physical and chemical methods of assay and analysis. Variation, strains and classification. Transmission by vectors and in other natural ways. Virus ecology. Ways of preventing crop losses. Viruses of organisms other than higher plants. Origins of viruses. Plant pathogens confused with viruses.