Category: Orchid Doctor

VIRUS: Control of Hand Transmission

Author is Robert M. [Bert] Hamilton (Compiler), posted over 7 years ago Use cheap plastic gloves; or wash the hands thoroughly with soap and water after each handling of a plant or materials. A83-600 Read More

VIRUS: Controls

Author is Robert M. [Bert] Hamilton (Compiler), posted over 7 years ago 1.discard infected plants, 2. sterilize cutting instruments, 3. sterilize pots, 4. keep moisture from dropping on pots below and do not let roots from plants intertwine, 5.sterilize benches before ... Read More

VIRUS: Cymbidium Mosaic Virus (cymv) and Tomato Mosaic Virus-0 (tmv)

Author is Robert M. [Bert] Hamilton (Compiler), posted over 7 years ago These two are the most important economically in the business. AH86-2; 4 Read More

VIRUS: Destroy? Quarentine? Cure?

Author is Robert M. [Bert] Hamilton (Compiler), posted over 7 years ago The extra time and care required to keep a diseased plant are considerable; cure is impossible; Virazole has suppressed or inhibited the synthesis of some viruses; refer to AH86-35 Read More

VIRUS: Detection and Diagnosis

Author is Robert M. [Bert] Hamilton (Compiler), posted over 7 years ago The technical process with a light microscope; refer to A86-996; principle and applications used; indicator plants and electron microscopy; light microscopy serology; necessary equipment; incidence... Read More

VIRUS: Diseases of Orchids

Author is Robert M. [Bert] Hamilton (Compiler), posted over 7 years ago History, recent developments; different types; refer to OA83-136; use of electron microscopy in detection, AH86-31 Read More

VIRUS: Eradication From a Collection

Author is Robert M. [Bert] Hamilton (Compiler), posted over 7 years ago Efforts to rid CMV and ORV from a personal collection over a period of four years described; tests showed plants grown from 15 to 25 years were 100% infected, those grown one to two years only 16% ... Read More

VIRUS: Groups and Methods of Transmission

Author is Robert M. [Bert] Hamilton (Compiler), posted over 7 years ago As defined by the Intenational Committee for the Taxonomy of Virus, and showing those that infect: orchids and their insects of transmission; list of names of orchid viruses. A84-507 Read More

VIRUS: How to Detect It

Author is Robert M. [Bert] Hamilton (Compiler), posted over 7 years ago A diagnostic technique developed to detect Cymbidium Mosaic and Odontoglossum Ringspot, the double radial diffusion test with antibodies produced by immunizing animals, usually rabbits;refer to A83... Read More

VIRUS: In Cymbidium Alexanderi 'westonbirt'

Author is Robert M. [Bert] Hamilton (Compiler), posted over 7 years ago The original seedling was sown on a cattleya host plant's pot and was likely the source of the virus, which was distinctive from the beginning, but was never free of the "ticking" that became a sig... Read More