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Published on: September 3, 2008
Optical brighteners do not influence covert baculovirus infection of Spodoptera frugiperda
Ana-Mabel Martínez1, Trevor Williams, Miguel López-Ferber
1Departamento de Producción Agraria, Universidad Pública de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
|March 5, 2005
Abstract:
Covert infection with Spodoptera frugiperda multiple nucleopolyhedrovirus, detected by reverse transcription-PCR of virus gene transcripts (ie-0 and polh), was not significantly affected by the presence of an optical brightener (Tinopal UNPA-GX), indicating no change in virus virulence. Detection of the covert infection was dependent on insect life stage and the viral mRNA used for diagnosis.

