melly
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Post by melly on May 17, 2008 18:08:56 GMT
I urgently have need of many information approximately the vft's virus.
I have a green dragon with a virus, and today i've found another vft infected: shark teeth
this is the green dragon virus variegated:
and this is the shark teeth virus variegated (i suppose):
So, there are the questions:
1-which type of virus is?
2-mine shark always has been healthy .that this virus is contagious?
3-if yes, the transmission of the virus happens through the aphids?
4-what must make?
5-these plants would go eliminated? or only isolated?
6-the variety "Dionaea Variegated" it is slices from virus?
I would not want to infect my entire collection for a pair of plants
I hope that you answer in many why it is becoming an obsession :suicide_fool-edit: p.s. for the moment i've isolated: variegated,dutch variegata, green dragon & shark virus variegated
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Post by brokken on May 21, 2008 0:59:18 GMT
How can you tell that your plants have been 'infected' by a virus?
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Post by joshua on May 21, 2008 13:13:26 GMT
How can you tell that your plants have been 'infected' by a virus? I was thinking the same thing..... Try opening the traps and see if there is any type of bug inside. (like a mite) |
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Post by unstuckintime on May 23, 2008 23:45:15 GMT
That top picture looks like....well....a normal flytrap. I dont see anything wrong at all...
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Post by Aidan on May 24, 2008 2:19:14 GMT
Both plants appear abnormal. Look more closely at the first photo and you will see that the plant is variegated. Variegation may be a sign of infection.
1 - Unknown.
2 - How would your plants have become infected otherwise?
3 - Aphids and other sucking insects are typical transmission vectors.
4 - Sorry, I don't understand the question.
5 - I'd certainly isolate or destroy infected plants. The first plant is at least interesting in appearance. The second just looks sick.
6 - No idea.
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Post by brokken on May 24, 2008 3:30:16 GMT
Both plants appear abnormal. Look more closely at the first photo and you will see that the plant is variegated. Variegation may be a sign of infection. 1 - Unknown. 2 - How would your plants have become infected otherwise? 3 - Aphids and other sucking insects are typical transmission vectors. 4 - Sorry, I don't understand the question. 5 - I'd certainly isolate or destroy infected plants. The first plant is at least interesting in appearance. The second just looks sick. 6 - No idea. Aidan: This is the first time that I've heard of a viral infection affecting dionaea. Is there a paper which talks about it? I'd like to become more familiar with this condition. Thanks. |
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Post by kulamauiman on Jul 1, 2008 1:08:24 GMT
Just an observation. Several viruses seem to have fairly wide host ranges and a few are only know to be vectored by people (i.e. tobacco mosaic virus) when the plants are being transplanted, propagated, or even handled. I sort of remember smokers being asked not to enter orchid greenhouses as their hands are a potential source of viral inoculum. So may not need aphids to spread a virus. I think cymbidium mosaic may be similar but that one is know to be aphid transmitted as well as mechanically transmitted.....
MTF
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Post by jfowler on Jul 1, 2008 2:45:20 GMT
Digging deep in my brain about a program I saw on PBS a while back, it seems that a virus was responsible for the stripes (flames) on the famed tulip forms that were so prized in the 1600s. Fairly recently, they isolated the virus and were able to infect seeds/bulbs and produce tulips that closely resembled the ones that people killed for back then.
When I saw those photos of your VFTs, that's the first thing that came to my mind. If the plants were OK when you first got them, and they look like what's in the photos now, I'd suspect a virus. But that's as far as I can go with it. Good luck, and keep us posted.
Jim
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Post by jfowler on Jul 1, 2008 2:52:01 GMT
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