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ALTHOUGH few plant viruses are known to be soil-borne, recent studies have shown that such viruses are present in many localities in eastern Scotland1–3, and it was suggested that they are probably much more generally distributed than has hitherto been suspected. The soil-borne viruses found in Scotland appear to have a very wide host-range, and one of them, beet ringspot virus, has been isolated from many species of herbaceous plants, including sugar beet, potato, turnip, wheat, oat, strawberry and many weeds3. The results reported below show that this virus is also soil-borne to peach, a woody species, and that the virus can be readily transmitted by mechanical inoculation from peach to herbaceous plants.
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HARRISON, B. Soil Transmission of Beet Ringspot Virus to Peach (Prunus persica). Nature 180, 1055–1056 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/1801055b0
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