High plains disease: virus, prion or extra-terrestrial? A review of a new disease

Authors
Brown, WM Skoglund, LG
Citation
Wm. Brown et Lg. Skoglund, High plains disease: virus, prion or extra-terrestrial? A review of a new disease, Z PFLANZENK, 106(6), 1999, pp. 660-663
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Plant Sciences
Journal title
ZEITSCHRIFT FUR PFLANZENKRANKHEITEN UND PFLANZENSCHUTZ-JOURNAL OF PLANT DISEASES AND PROTECTION
ISSN journal
03408159 → ACNP
Volume
106
Issue
6
Year of publication
1999
Pages
660 - 663
Database
ISI
SICI code
0340-8159(199911)106:6<660:HPDVPO>2.0.ZU;2-W
Abstract
The disease that has been termed High Plains disease (HPD) is new known to be consistently associated with a virus that is characterized by a 32 kDa p rotein situating in groups along a double stranded RNA, an eriophyid mice, Aceria tosichella, vector, being seedborne in maize and double membrane bou nd panicles (DMP), 150-200 nm in diameter.