ECOLOGY OF CUCUMBER MOSAIC VIRUS IN THE RHONE VALLEY OF FRANCE

Virus ecology is concerned with the study of how a virus is perpetuated under natural conditions.
Maintenance of the virus is the result of complex interactions of several factors such as the virus strains, the vectors, the virus-hosts (weeds and susceptible crops), the agricultural practice and the environment.

The subject has been recently reviewed by several authors e.g.: Stevens 1960, Swenson 1968, Broadbent 1969, Duffus 1971, Tresh 1974 and 1976, Berger 1977 and Zitter 1977.

In this paper, the ecology of a non-persistent virus of vegetable crops was studied by a three year study of cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) in vegetable crop fields located in the Avignon area of southern Rhône valley of France (Quiot et al., 1979a).

III Conference on Epidemiology and Control of Virus Diseases of Vegetables

J.B. Quiot

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.1981.88.1