Abstract
A LEAF-MOTTLING disease of the fig has been described from California and from Australia. The malady is caused by a virus, and is known as fig mosaic. Dr. G. C. Ainsworth announces the appearance of the disease in England (J. Roy. Hort. Soc., December 1935), and mentions two types of mottling, namely, irregular, yellowish-green blotches, and pale green spots or bands along the larger veins. The fruit is affected but slightly, with small spots. Now that botanists are ‘virus-conscious’, it has been realised that the disease was known twenty years ago, though its cause was not suspected, and it is fairly widespread in Great Britain.
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Fig Mosaic. Nature 137, 821 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137821a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/137821a0