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research article

Transmission of pear decline by grafting

authors

T. A. Shalla, Experiment Station
T. W. Carroll, University of California
Luigi Chiarappa, Food and Agriculture Organization

publication information

California Agriculture 18(3):4-5. DOI: 10.3733/ca.v018n03p4. March 1964.

author affiliations

T. A. Shalla is Assistant Plant Pathologist in the Experiment Station; T. W. Carroll is a Laboratory Technician, University of California, Davis; Luigi Chiarappa was formerly a Research Plant Pathologist for the Di Giorgio Fruit Corporation and is now with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome, Italy.

abstract

Graft transmission studies provide further evidence that quick decline pears is caused by a virus and that, under experimental conditions, it cause the disease in the absence of pear psylla.