Abstract

AbstractA virus disease of pearl millet (Pennisetum americanum) in the Ivory Coast has symptoms consisting of a light‐green mosaic of variable severity, followed. by dwarfing. The causal virus is mechanically transmissible and aphid‐borne, but not seed‐borne. It was purified, has flexuous filamentous particles about 820 nm long, and is a member of the potyvirus group. Its host range, and biological, physico‐chemical and serological properties indicate that it is a strain of guinea grass mosaic virus.

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