potato tuber necrotic ring disease

[Browning, Isla]

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From: browning at sasa.gov.uk
Date:  6 Dec 94 12:45:08 -0000

>The PVY isolate causing Potato Tuber Necrotic Ring Disease affects 
>cultivars which are either immune or possess high levels of field 
>resistance to PVY. The symptoms described resemble those I have 
>experienced on manual inoculation of PVA resistant cultivars with PVA. 
>The resultant tubers grow poorly and may show leaf drop streak.I would 
>be interested to hear if anyone considers that the symptoms induced by 
>the PVYNRD isolate are in fact resistance reactions.
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>Isla Browning
>Diagnostics and Molecular Biology Section 
>SASA
>Edinburgh.
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