Soybean Chlorotic Mottle, a New Caulimovirus on Soybean. M. Iwaki, Institute for Plant Virus Research, Tsukuba Science City, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305 Japan. Y. Isogawa and H. Tsuzuki, Aichi-ken Agricultural Research Center, Nagakute, Aichi, 480-11 Japan; and Y. Honda, Institute for Plant Virus Research, Tsukuba Science City, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305 Japan. Plant Dis. 68:1009-1011. Accepted for publication 21 July 1984. Copyright 1984 The American Phytopathological Society. DOI: 10.1094/PD-68-1009.

A virus with major properties similar to those of caulimoviruses induced chlorotic mottling and stunting in soybean (Glycine max). The virus was transmitted by mechanical inoculation to soybean, bean, lablab bean, and cowpea but was not transmitted by five species of aphids. The virus, which consisted of isometric particles 50 nm in diameter, was not related serologically to cauliflower mosaic virus.