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Virus Symptoms

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Symptoms are the observable effects that a virus has on the growth, development and metabolism of an infected host plant. In the early days of plant virology, symptoms were of major importance, for they were the main means by which a virus disease was diagnosed and named. Viruses are still named after the type of symptom they cause in the diseased plant (see Section 2.2), but many other techniques have now become available to assist in virus diagnosis (see Chapter 6). These techniques not only accelerate the process of virus identification, but they also enable us to avoid confusing virus-induced symptoms with those caused by other disease agents such as viroids, mycoplasma and rickettsia-like organisms (see Section 2.5).

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    David G. A. Walkey (Principal Scientific Officer, Honorary Lecturer)

  2. Plant Science Department, University College, Cardiff, UK

    David G. A. Walkey (Principal Scientific Officer, Honorary Lecturer)

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Walkey, D.G.A. (1991). Virus Symptoms. In: Applied Plant Virology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3090-5_3

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