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Fritillaria thumbergii—a new host of Potato leafroll virus in China

S. Tu ^A ^C, C. Qin ^B and C. Chen ^B

^A Laboratory of Molecular Biology, College of Life Sciences, Heilongjiang University, 74 Xue-fu Road, Harbin 150080, PRC.
^B Fishery College, Huazhong Agricultural University, 1 Lion Street, Hongshan District, Wuhan 430070, PRC.
^C Corresponding author. Email: shanjuntufupjv@yahoo.ca

Abstract

The medicinal plant Fritillaria thumbergii was confirmed for the first time as a new host of Potato leafroll virus (PLRV) by reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). This is the first report of Fritillaria thumbergii as a host of PLRV in China.

Australasian Plant Disease Notes 1(1) 31–32 doi:10.1071/DN06014
Submitted: 7 March 2006 Accepted: 8 September 2006 Published: 24 October 2006