First Report of Potato Viruses Infecting Lamium purpureum in Ukraine
Journal: Mikrobiolohichnyi Zhurnal
Year: 2021

Weeds as reservoirs for destructive plant pathogens have a significant impact on the viral epidemiology, ecology and, as a result, on local economy, and are therefore being investigated in many parts of the world. Thus, the aim of this study was to investigate virus occurrence in red dead-nettle plants (Lamium purpureum L.) widespread in urban and field conditions throughout the in the Kyiv region of Ukraine. Methods. Field crop observations, visual diagnosis, biological testing of the virus, im