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Transmission by Vectors

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Plant Viruses

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Plant viruses are more dependent on an organism for their transfer from infected to healthy plants than any other kind of pathogen. In the early days of plant virus research, it was considered that the power to transmit viruses was the property of only a few insects whose feeding methods specifically fitted them to achieve this. At the present time, however, one is compelled to change this view. It has been demonstrated that almost all types of organism feeding upon, or parasitizing, plants are capable of acting as vectors and these include biting and sucking insects, mites, nematode worms, and Chytrid fungi. Furthermore, every gradation of relationship between vector and virus exists, from a purely mechanical contamination of the jaws to an intimate biological association.

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Smith, K.M. (1977). Transmission by Vectors. In: Plant Viruses. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9653-9_8

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