Plant virus disease control antibiotics

The use of antibiotics for the control of plant virus diseases( ) is of interest. Several antibiotics have been tested for inhibition of replication of viral nucleic acid and/or protein synthesis within the host cell. Chloramphenicol, cycloheximide, actinomycin D and others are the most used antibiotics and the disease caused by tobacco mosaic... 

It is often said that when a suspected virus disease may be controlled by antibiotics(Table 3), the cause of the diseases must be mycoplasma and never a virus. This arbitrary statement segregating viruses from mycoplasma has many times been held valid, but there remain several other instances where application of antibiotics to the host plant has reduced the pathogenesis of viruses to a considerable degree(69-70). 

One of the most serious problems on plant disease control is the virulence of virus diseases. Trials to develop antiviral antibiotics have been enthusiastically conducted by many workers. Consequently, many antibiotics have been revealed to be effective on inhibiting the multiplication of several plant viruses by in vitro test and pot test. They are blasticidin S, laurusin, bihoromycin, miharamycin, citrinin and aabomycin A etc. However,... 

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