Re: Mr. Sedlar's Credentials
> Just post your evidence,
> your thoughts, opinions, and stuff to back it up the best you can.
Hopefully
> we all can stay open minded. I sure am trying to be. Like CMV transmission
> in c. maxima via seed, I challenged anyone to show me one case of it
> happening,
I must take exception here and quote the following from the Agdia Inc web
site. http://www.agdia.com/cgi_bin/catalog.cgi/44501
Agdia is the manufacturer of easy-to-use test kits, reagents and laboratory
testing services for the detection of more than 150 plant pathogens
(viruses, fungi, bacteria) in vegetable, orchard, ornamental and field
crops.
"Cucumber Mosaic Virus (CMV) naturally affects well over 400 species of
plants. While the most common symptom of CMV is mosaic, a number of other
symptoms can result from CMV infection, depending upon the type of plant
affected. Some of these symptoms are flecking, dwarfing, and fern leaf.
Cucumber Mosaic Virus is primarily transmitted by aphids. However, this
virus can also be spread through the seeds or bulbs of some species."
(Steve Please Note Words in last sentence "through the seeds".
From the Department of Plant Pathology,CTAHR, University of Hawaii at Manoa
http://www.extento.hawaii.edu/kbase/crop/Type/cucvir.htm
"EPIDEMIOLOGY
CMV is transmitted primarily by aphids, and also by seed, cucumber beetles,
parasitic plants, humans, and mechanically"
These Institutions say CMV virus CAN be transmitted via seeds. I think they
both qualify as expert sources.
> Hey, if someone shows me where this did happen, I am willing to
> change my mind. But after extensive research on my own, I have only found
> evidence that points in the opposite direction.
<snip>
> -Steve
All due respect but this same information was posted to this list March 3,
2000 yet you persist. I think it is time to change your mind. It is OK not
to be right, it is OK to have strong opinions, but , IMHO, as it relates to
seeds and CMV I think it time to accept that this is an issue that has come
as far as it can be taken.
Mike
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