Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat

The Plant Viruses

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Plant Viruses, Including Protophytal Viruses

Those viruses that have been identified as belonging to one of the groups approved by the ICTV will only be identified in that manner. Specific properties described in the literrature, particularly numerical ones such as molecular weights, may not agree exactly with those given for the type member or the general range describing the group. However, in view, of the uncertainty of all such values (except for the sequenced molecules), only gross deviations from group characteristics will be noted for individual viruses.

Viruses of Protists

The viruses of protists, mostly of bacteria, will be listed alphabetically, Roman letters being followed by the corresponding Greek letters, followed by arabic numbers, followed by Roman numbers. The letter φ at the beginning of such symbols (presumably standing for phage, and not consistently used for the same phages) will be omitted throughout: thus φ X174 is X 174.

Host-Range and Structural Data on Common Plant Viruses

In the study of plant viruses, the plant is indispensible. The literature describing diseases produced by plant viruses is vast. Much of the earlier work has been summarized by Smith (1937), and more recent accounts have been given by Bos (1963) and Holmes (1964). Descriptions of Plant Viruses, edited by A. J. Gibbs, B. D. Harrison and A. F. Murant, and published by the Commonwealth Mycological Institute and Association of Applied Biologists (CMI/AAB)* is also of considerable usefulness. We have recently compared our independently tabulated data with these descriptions and have checked for any errors or omissions in regard to hosts. Some of our physical data are more up to date, however, than those of the CMI/AAB.