TY - JOUR AU1 - Gibbs, A. J. AU2 - Harrison, B. D. AB - SUGAR beet on fields with sandy alkaline soils in East Angha often grows poorly, the stunted plants occurring in patches of various shapes and sizes. The trouble is more common in some years than others, and is apparently not caused by deficiency of any of the major plant nutrients. It is called " Docking disorder," from the name of the parish where it was first recognized, and was described by Gibbs (1959). He was unable to identify a pathogen as the cause, and, in one field studied in detail, none seemed concerned because steaming the soil from it did not ameliorate the growth of beet plants. However, experiments made by the National Agricultural Advisory Service (F.E. Shotton, personal communication) showed that at some affected sites sugar beet grew vigorously after the soil had been treated with the sterilant dichloropropane-dichloropropene. This sterilant kills many soil organisms, but it is best known as a nematicide and it prevents the spread of the nematodetransmitted arabis mosaic virus (Harrison, Peachey and Winslow, 1963). We therefore made further tests in 1962 and 1963 to see whether nematodetransmitted viruses were in any way involved in some outbreaks of Docking disorder. Tomato black ring (TBRV) TI - NEMATODE‐TRANSMITTED VIRUSES IN SUGAR BEET IN EAST ANGLIA JF - Plant Pathology DO - 10.1111/j.1365-3059.1964.tb00920.x DA - 1964-12-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/nematode-transmitted-viruses-in-sugar-beet-in-east-anglia-8PflV01Yzu SP - 144 VL - 13 IS - 4 DP - DeepDyve ER -