Other Plant Disease — United States
[A] rare soybean disease, tobacco ringspot virus [TRSV], has appeared in Indiana. The disease is hard to miss in a field. Infected plants have few pods. They stay green longer because there are virtually no beans for the plant to feed sugars to, so sugars remain in stems. A few pods may have one or more beans in them. They seldom mature, however.
Darcy Telenko, Purdue University, indicated that she hasn’t seen the disease very often. TRSV can be transmitted through infected seed and by
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