Re: Mr. Sedlar's Credentials
> > 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
>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".
>
Mike, I see that. But also note the phrase "of some species", c. maxima has
never been reported as one of them.
>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.
>
>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
I never said CMV can't be transmitted via seed in some species, I just said
it never has been reported to have been in any c. maxima.
Funny how you mentioned Agdia, I just got off of the phone with a guy from
there, I should post about that in another note.
But he was inconclusive about whether CMV could be transmitted via seed in
A.G.'s (of course, they want you to pay them to do the tests! :) ). But I
still stand by the fact that no case of CMV has EVER been reported (to my
knowledge so far, and I have done a lot of looking) to have been transmited
via seed in c. maxima. I have found STRONG evidence that it CANNOT be,
(sited in my previous posts about others who grew a lot of seeds from plants
that were unquestionably infected ewith CMV the season before). So given
this detail, as well as the rest of my research, tests on my seeds from
infected plants, which I also have posted about before, I have to say it
appears to be extremely unlikely for this to be possible in c. maxima.
Again though, I always have to add this....even though I strongly believe
that CMV can't be transmitted via seed in A.G.'s. I still have never offered
any seeds from an infected plant. And the healthy seeds I even screened. So
this has nothing to do with any seeds I have ever offered.
-Steve
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