Barbara Andrewski provided the link to this article about Phal viruses. In it the author mentions that the Capsicum chlorosis virus (CaCV) is spread by the Asian thrip Thrips palmi which is kept out of Europe by phyto-sanitary inspections. That the virus is limited threat because it is localized rather than systemic, affecting only the area of the insect's bite. Any plant pathologists out there? Why wouldn't the common thrip pass along CaCV? Can a virus be limited and not systemic? And finally, wow! 33% of the crop had OSRV and/or CymMV present. Let's be careful out there. K Barrett N Calif, USA> > A while back someone mentioned diseased orchids that came from Taiwan. > Here is an article that showed up recently in one of the Grower trade > magazines. Here it is:> > http://floracultureinternational.com/> > Barbara _________________________________________________________________ Talk to your Yahoo! Friends via Windows Live Messenger. Find out how. http://www.windowslive.com/explore/messenger?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_messenger_yahoo_082008 _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
