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cucumber mosaic

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cucumber mosaic [′kyü·kəm·bər mō′zā·ik]
(plant pathology)
A virus disease of cucumbers and related fruits, producing mottling of terminal leaves and fruits and dwarfing of vines.


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These field tests have included evaluations of tomatoes resistant to tomato mosaic virus, potatoes resistant to potato leaf-roll virus, and cantaloupe and squash resistant to cucumber mosaic virus (SN: 8/19/89, p.
The plant-produced satellite takes advantage of the disease-causing cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) in order to reproduce itself, but in doing so it suppresses CMV replication.
 
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