Tag Archive for PRO/PL> Pospiviroids, tomato – Ghana, Mali: rasta disease
PRO/PL> Pospiviroids, tomato – Ghana, Mali: rasta disease
Other Plant Disease -- GhanaIn Ghana, 'rasta' is a virus-like disease of unknown etiology affecting tomato (_Solanum lycopersicum_) plants. Symptoms include stunting; epinasty, crumpling, and chlorosis of leaves; and necrosis of leaf veins, petioles and stems.Leaf samples with rasta symptoms were collected from 17 commercial tomato fields in Ghana in October 2012 and were shown to be infected with _Potato spindle tuber viroid_ (_Pospiviroid_, PSTVd -- EPPO A2 List) and _Tomato apical stunt viroid_ Read more [...]
