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Gerald Holmes, Strawberry Center, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Bugwood.org
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Image Number: 1574196

Sweet Potato Feathery Mottle Virus (SPFMV) (Potyvirus batataplumei)

Photographer:
Gerald Holmes
Descriptor:
Symptoms
Description:
Sweetpotato russett crack is caused by a strain of SPFMV. The cracking often occurs in rings around the root. November 1997
Image type:
Field
Host:
sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.)

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Subject

Kingdom: Viruses
Phylum:
Class: Single-stranded, positive-sense, RNA (Group IV)
Order: Unassigned single stranded positive-sense RNA viruses
Family: Potyviridae
Genus: Potyvirus
Subject: Potyvirus SPFMV

Host

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Asteridae
Order: Solanales
Family: Convolvulaceae
Genus: Ipomoea
Subject: Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.
Node Affiliation:
Bugwood - UGA
Image uploaded:
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Image last updated:
Friday, January 31, 2014