Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-4rdpn Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-15T02:07:20.712Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

A NOTE ON VIRAZOLE AS A SYSTEMIC STERILANT FOR APHIDS (APHIDIDAE)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

R. P. Singh ,
M. E. Drew  and
M. E. MacGillivray
R. P. Singh
Affiliation:
Research Station, Agriculture Canada, Fredericton, New Brunswick E3B 4Z7
M. E. Drew
Affiliation:
Research Station, Agriculture Canada, Fredericton, New Brunswick E3B 4Z7
M. E. MacGillivray
Affiliation:
Research Station, Agriculture Canada, Fredericton, New Brunswick E3B 4Z7
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

A synthetic nucleoside analogue, 1-β-D-ribofuranosyl-1,2,4,-triazole-3-carboxamide (known as Virazole or Ribavirin), has been shown to inhibit the multiplication of at least 25 DNA- and RNA-containing human viruses (Sidwell et al. 1974), and to inhibit or eliminate several plant viruses (Fazio et al. 1978; Hansen 1979; Lerch 1977; Shepard 1977). We report here a significant reduction in the number of nymphs produced by aphids living on plants treated with sublethal doses of Virazole, and the stunting of treated plants at higher concentrations.

Type
Articles
Information
The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 112 , Issue 6 , 01 June 1980 , pp. 633 - 636
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1980

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Chawla, S. S., Perron, J. M., and Huot, L.. 1973. Potato aphid: effects of five chemosterilants. J. econ. Ent. 66: 963–965.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Fazio, G. De, Caner, J., and Vicente, M.. 1978. Inhibitory effect of Virazole (Ribavirin) on the replication of tomato white necrosis virus (VNBT). Arch. Virology 58: 153–156.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Hansen, A. J. 1979. Inhibition of apple chlorotic leaf spot virus in Chenopodium quinoa by Ribavirin. Pl. Dis. Reptr 63: 17–20.Google Scholar
Kennedy, J. S., Day, M. F., and Eastop, V. F.. 1962. A conspectus of aphids as vectors of plant viruses. Commonwealth Inst. Ent., London. 114 pp.Google Scholar
Leclant, F., Labonne, G., Lauriant, F., and Renoust, M.. 1976. Essais d'analogues d'hormones juveniles sur Myzus persicae Sulz. (Hom. Aphididae) en verger de pêches. Ann. Zool.-Ecol. anim. 8: 109–117.Google Scholar
Lerch, B. 1977. Inhibition of the biosynthesis of potato virus X by Ribavirin. Phytopath. Z. 89: 44–49.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Maugh, T. H. II. 1976. Chemotherapy: Antiviral agents come of age. Science 192: 128–132.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Shepard, J. F. 1977. Regeneration of plants from protoplasts of potato virus X-infected tobacco leaves. II. Influence of Virazole on the frequency of infection. Virology 78: 261–266.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Sidwell, R. W., Simon, L. N., Witkowski, J. T., and Robins, R. K.. 1974. Antiviral activity of Virazole: Review and structure-activity relationship. Prog. Chemotherapy 2: 889–903.Google Scholar
Singh, R. P. 1971. A local lesion host for potato spindle tuber virus. Phytopathology 61: 1034–1035.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
White, D. F. and Lamb, K. P.. 1968. Effect of synthetic juvenile hormone on adult cabbage aphids and their progeny. J. Insect Physiol. 14: 395–402.CrossRefGoogle Scholar