Abstract |
This publication contains the proceedings of a workshop on barley yellow dwarf (BYD) held in Mexico on 6-8 December, 1983. It contains 23 contributed papers (including comments made to them), and situation reports on the importance of BYD in different countries or regions (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, the USA, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Egypt, Turkey, China, the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, the Andean region, and Eastern, Central and Southern Africa). The main topics discussed in the workshop refer to many aspects of the detection, isolation, purification, and characterization of BYD disease, its viral |