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Two years ago, there was discovered in a commercial glasshouse in Cardiff a plant of Solanum capsicastrum which was affected with a virus disease in which the symptoms consisted of numerous concentric circles on the leaves. This virus has been investigated at Cambridge; it has been transmitted by artificial means to various hosts, including the tobacco plant, on which it produces a typical ringspot disease.1
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Smith, Kenneth M., Ann. Appl. Biol., 18 No. 1.
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Doolittle, S. P. and Sumner, C. B., Phytopath., 21, No. 1.
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SMITH, K. Thrips tabaci Lind. as a Vector of Plant Virus Disease. Nature 127, 852–853 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/127852a0
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