Sanjay Kumar, Rajeshwari Sharma, A.K. Sharma and Manoj Kumar Sharma
Department of Botany and Microbiology, J.V. College, Baraut (Baghpat) U.P.
Abstract: The plant of Jatropha curcas L. suffer from several diseases, among them Jatropha mosaic virus disease is a newly emerging disease that challenges the productivity of a prospective biofuel crop, Jatropha curcas. Jatropha mosaic virus(JMV) disease could not be transmitted either through the vector aphids or through mechanically, but disease could be transmitted by grafting from donor J. curcas to healthy J. curcas and also from J. gossypiifolia to J. gossypiifolia but not from J. curcas to J. gosypiifolia and vice versa and the disease could also be transmitted successfully through dodder. 80% of the dodder transmitted J.curcas plant developed distorted symptoms within 15 days after inoculation.
Keywords: JMV, Jatropha curcas, Jatropha gossypiifolia,Grafting, Dodder
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