Properties of two Lymantria dispar nuclear polyhedrosis virus isolates obtained from the microbial pesticide Gypchek

Jim Slavicek; John Podgwaite; Carita Lanner-Herrera

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Properties of two Lymantria dispar nuclear polyhedrosis virus isolates obtained from the microbial pesticide Gypchek

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Authors:

Jim Slavicek, John Podgwaite, Carita Lanner-Herrera

Year:

1992

Type:

Scientific Journal

Station:

Northern Research Station

Source:

Journal of Invertebrate Pathology. 59: 142-148.

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Abstract

Two Lymantria dispar nuclear polyhedrosis virus isolates, 5-6 and A2-1, differing in the phenotypic characteristic of the number of viral occlusions in infected cells, were obtained from a production lot of the microbial pesticide Gypchek and several of their replication properties were investigated and compared. Budded virus titer produced in cell culture, polyhedral inclusion body production in cell culture and in vivo, the number of virions present within occlusion body cross sections, and potency determinations suggest that isolate 5-6 is a few polyhedra plaque variant and that A2-1 is a many polyhedra wild-type isolate.

Keywords

Lymantria dispar, nuclear polyhedrosis virus, plaque variant, few polyhedra mutant

Citation

Slavicek, James M.; Podgwaite, John; Lanner-Herrera, Carita. 1992. Properties of two Lymantria dispar nuclear polyhedrosis virus isolates obtained from the microbial pesticide Gypchek. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology. 59: 142-148.