Mechanical Transmission of a Plant Tumor Virus to an Insect Vector

Authors

Karl Maramorosch
Myron K. Brakke, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
L. M. Black

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

1949

Comments

Published in SCIENCE, New Series, Vol. 110, No. 2850 (Aug. 12, 1949), pp. 162-163.

Abstract

Most plant viruses transmitted by leafhoppers have not been demonstrated to be infective in extracts. The virus dealt with in this paper causes tumors in certain susceptible plants, is carried by leafhoppers, and like others in that group has proven difficult to detect in extracts. It is our purpose to recount briefly the variety of methods that failed to transmit the virus and to report on the success of insect-to-insect transmission by injection.