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PAMPHLET No. 110 of the Commonwealth of Australia Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (314 Albert Street, East Melbourne, Victoria, 1941), by J. G. Bald and A. T. Pugsley, considers the effects of the potato virus diseases named X, A, Y, and leaf-roll, upon the most important varieties of that crop grown in Victoria. The variety Carman is almost entirely infected with virus X, is very susceptible to A and T, and less so to leaf-roll. Up-to-date, like its namesake in Great Britain, is susceptible to most of the serious viruses, but in Victoria it possesses practical field immunity from virus A. The Snow-flake variety is not very subject to aphis-borne virus diseases, though the stock is almost entirely affected with virus X. A survey of suitable districts for the propagation of disease-free potato stocks is being made, and further studies of the effects of multiple infection by the viruses mentioned above, and those denoted by F and G, are in progress.
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Potato Virus Diseases in Victoria. Nature 151, 501 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151501b0
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