Viruses of Plants in Australia - Preface

Descriptions and Lists from the VIDE Database

edited by

Cornelia Büchen-Osmond, Karen Crabtree, Adrian Gibbs

George McLean

Research School of Biological Sciences, The Australian National University

Canberra 1988

CONTENTS

• PREFACE
• 1. INTRODUCTION
  • 1.1 The VIDE database
  • 1.2 Layout and use of the book
  • 1.3 Plant virus systematics
  • 1.4 Literature cited
• 2. INDICES OF KNOWN NATURAL HOSTS OF PLANT VIRUSES IN AUSTRALIA
  • 2.1 Species Infected
  • 2.2 Families of the Infected Species
• 3. VIRUS DESCRIPTIONS
  • 3.1 Information about each Virus specific to Australia
• 4. APPENDIX
  • 4.1 Australian specific Virus Questionnaire
  • 4.2 List of Viruses recorded in Australia

PREFACE

The VIDE project was mooted in the late 1970s, and, with support from the Rural Credit Development Fund of the Reserve Bank of Australia, an experimental database of viruses of legumes data was compiled in the early 1980s. Legumes were chosen, not only because of their economic importance, but because the International Working Group on Legume Viruses provided a convenient source of experts to help collect information. Since 1983 the project has been funded by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, and additional data on viruses of legumes and of tropical crops included in the database. Further generous support from the Rural Credit Development Fund enabled data of viruses of Australian plants to be compiled and published in this book.

The VIDE project has relied throughout on the help and encouragement of a very large number of colleagues. The many virologists who collated the data in this book are listed in the next section, and are specifically attributedin each virus, or virus group, description. L. Watson and his colleagues C. Frylink and J. Lenz of the Taxonomy Laboratory, R.S.B.S., and M.J. Dallwitz and T.A. Paine of the Division of Entomology, CSIRO provided indispensable help with the theory and practical use of the DELTA system and associated programs, and D. Sandilands and J. Armstrong of RSBS Computer Unit provided additional computing expertise.

We invite comment on all aspects of the VIDE Project or its products, suggestions for expansion of applications of the use of the database, and requests for any specific part of the information. We will be particularly grateful to hear of any errors found in the collated information, and for advice or assistance in revising data for individual viruses.

Editors,

Comments to the electronic version of the "Viruses of Plants in Australia"

The files presented here in electronic form are taken from the printed version of "Viruses of Plants in Australia". Copies of this book may be obtained from : The VIDE Project, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, G.P.O. Box 475, Canberra, A.C.T. 2601, Australia.

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Updated: 20 September 2002