Occurrence of Cucumber mosaic virus Infecting Parsley (Petroselinum crispum) in Turkey

Occurrence of Cucumber mosaic virus Infecting Parsley (Petroselinum crispum) in Turkey

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Parsley plants are grown throughout Turkey as summer and winter crops.Diseased plants lawn chairs 9 inches off the ground having typical of a virus infection such as mosaic, mottling, and leaf distortion symptoms were frequently observed in most of the parsley fields and vegetable public markets in the Middle Black Sea Region of Turkey in 2010.Using double-antibody sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (DAS-ELISA), Cucumber mosaic berkley power worm 100 pack virus (CMV) was detected on the diseased parsley plants.However, using farmers and commercial seed lots, CMV was not detected in seeds or germinating seedlings.