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IN a previous communication1, a short description was given of a new virus isolated from a steckling mangold. Further investigation has revealed the interesting fact that this virus seems to be present in a latent condition in a high percentage of the ordinary seed beets and mangolds in the British Isles. Samples of apparently healthy sugar-beet and mangold stecklings collected at random from different farms in Essex, Cambridge, Lincoln and Scotland were all found to contain the virus. The concentration of virus differed considerably in the various lots, and the virus was not detected in every plant of each sample.
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Smith, Kenneth M., and Wyckoff, R. W. G., Research, 4, 148 (1951).
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SMITH, K. A Latent Virus in Sugar-beets and Mangolds. Nature 167, 1061 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/1671061a0
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