The Plant Viruses

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Introduction

   • Robert G. Milne

   Pages 1-2

3. Taxonomy of the Rod-Shaped Filamentous Viruses

   • Robert G. Milne

   Pages 3-50

4. Particle Structure

   • Patrick Tollin, Herbert R. Wilson

   Pages 51-83

5. Purification of Filamentous Viruses and Virus-Induced Noncapsid Proteins

   • Alan A. Brunt

   Pages 85-110

6. Serology and Immunochemistry

   • Renate Koenig

   Pages 111-158

7. Organization and Expression of the Viral Genomes

   • Ernest Hiebert, William G. Dougherty

   Pages 159-178

8. Cytopathology

   • Dietrich-E. Lesemann

   Pages 179-235

9. Transmission by Vectors

   • A. F. Murant, B. Raccah, T. P. Pirone

   Pages 237-273

10. Ecology and Control

    • Bryce W. Falk, James E. Duffus

    Pages 275-296

11. The Rice Stripe Virus Group

    • Roy E. Gingery

    Pages 297-329

12. The Economic Impact of Filamentous Plant Viruses

    • Robert G. Milne, Gaylord I. Mink, Luis F. Salazar, Hervé Lecoq, Hervé Lot, Helmut Kleinhempel et al.

    Pages 331-407

13. Back Matter

    Pages 409-423

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The original aim of this book was to cover different aspects of the tradi­ tionally "filamentous" potex-, carla-, poty-, clostero-, and capilloviruses. The title The Filamentous Plant Viruses seemed the only suitable one, but it has led us to discuss also the quite different filamentous viruses of the rice stripe group-recently officially named the tenuivirus group­ which otherwise, indeed, might not have been conveniently covered in any volume of this series. The question must be asked: What is there new that justifies the presentation of a book of this kind? An outline of the answer may be Among the traditional filamentous viruses, much pro­ given as follows. gress has been made in elucidating the physical structure of potexvirus particles, and this work serves as an excellent model for discussion of and future experiments on the poty-, carla-, clostero-, and capilloviruses, which have comparable structures, although they are more difficult to manipulate. Work on the structure and strategy of the genomes of poty­ viruses is, however, relatively advanced and at a very interesting stage. The helper component that assists the aphid transmission of potyviruses has also recently received considerable attention, although the more we know about that, the less seems clear about the aphid transmission of the carlaviruses and closteroviruses, which apparently neither possess nor require a helper component.

• antibody
• antigen
• chemistry
• classification
• cytoplasm
• fungi
• genome structure
• infection
• protein
• taxonomy
• tissue
• translation
• virus
• Tree Biology

• Institute of Applied Phytovirology, National Research Council, Torino, Italy

  Robert G. Milne

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