With Plate 10) Four sap-transmissible viruses were isolated from cultivated Solanaceae in Trinidad : ( I ) tobacco mosaic virus, from tobacco, tomato and sweet pepper; (2) cucumber mosaic virus, from tobacco and petunia; (3) 'pepper vein-banding virus', probably related to pepper mosaic viruses in Puerto Rico and Brazil, from peppers and tobacco; (4) ' egg-plant mosaic virus ', possibly related to the tobacco ring-spot virus, from egg-plant and tomato. Pepper vein-banding virus causes leaf-crinkling and vein-banding in Physalis floridana, petunia, various NicotMna spp. and most peppers; the Large Bell Hot pepper is killed; tomato and egg-plant are immune. Egg-plant mosaic virus produces mosaic, ring-spotting, or both, on different solanaceous species. It also gives local and systemic ring-spotting on Chenopodium hybridum and necrotic local lesions on the primary leaves of cowpea (var. Black-eye) ; cucumber is a symptomless carrier. Only cucumber mosaic virus was found naturally infecting non-solanaceoua hosts, cucumber and certain common wild The thermal inactivation point of pepper vein-banding virus is 62' C., its dilution end-point 2 x and itslongevityinvitro6 days at 25-30" C. ; corresponding values for egg-plant mosaic virus are 78" C., ~o-"and over3 weeks. Aphisgossypii transmits cucumber mosaic and pepper vein-banding, but not egg-plant mosaic, of which Epitrix sp. is an occasional vector. Tobacco mosaic, as elsewhere, probably has no regular insect vectors in Trinidad.plants.
Sap-transmissible mosaic diseases of solanaceous crops
24'A second, widespread in egg-plants (Solanum melongena L.), also occasionally causes mosaic in adjacent tomatoes. Brief notes on these two viruses, which he called