Mycoplasma-like bodies in plants infected with potato witches' broom disease and the response of plants to tetracycline treatment
- 1 November 1969
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Experimental Botany in Biologia plantarum
- Vol. 11 (6), 470-476
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02920712
Abstract
The virus origin of a Czechoslovak isolate of potato witches' broom disease is discounted: electron micrographs of ultrathin section of phloem tissues from plants infected with potato witches' broom disease demonstratedMycoplasma-like bodies, spherical or elongated showing binary fission and fragmentation. The minute corpuscles have a diameter of about 50–60 nm, the largest bodies of 1000 nm. The width of elongated filamentous structures is about 200 nm, most oval bodies have a diameter of 250 nm. A weak tetracycline treatment of diseased plants causes a delay of symptom development; a strong dose of tetracycline (applied by means of the wick method into the stem) inhibits symptom appearance completely. Tetracycline produces a phytotoxic effect inhibiting the growth of tomato plants and causing (at higher concentrations) necrosis and death of these plants. There is a note in the paper dealing with the term “mycoplasma”. The word mycoplasma in the sense ofEriksson (1897) or ofMereschkowsky (1910) does not correspond to the genus nameMycoplasma Nowak (1929). Práce popírá virovou etiologii metlovitosti bramboru: na elektronogramech ultratenkých žezů lýkem rostlin nakažených metlovitostí bramboru byly zjištěny částice připomínajícíMycoplasma, kulovité nebo vláknité, které se větví nebo se z nich odškrcují menší tělíska. Nejmenší tělíska mají průměr 50–60 nm, největší 1000 nm. Vlákna jsou tlustá obvykle kolem 200 nm, oválná tělíska mají nejčastější průměr 250 nm. Slabá dávka tetracyklinu zpožduje vývoj příznaků infikovaných rostlin, silná dávka (po aplikaci tetracyklinu knotem do stonku) úplně zabrání vývoji příznaků metlovitosti. Tetracyklin však působí toxicky na rostliny, inhibuje jejich růst a ve vyšší dávce působí nekrózy i uhynutí. V práci je terminologická poznámka: termín mycoplasma ve smysluErikssonově (1897) ani ve smysluMereschkowského (1910) nesouvisí s rodovým označením mikroorganismůMycoplasma Nowak (1929).Keywords
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