Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The tomato leaf mold fungus is a specific pathogen that only infects tomatoes, mainly in greenhouses. The symptoms of this disease commonly occurs on foliage, and it develops on both sides of the leaf on the adaxial and abaxial surface. The older leaves are infected first and then the disease moves up towards young leaves. [2]
In 2013, the Hindustan Times reported that in India, buckeye rot of tomato has led to damage in 30–40 percent of tomato crops. [13] In 2012, the price of a tomato in India ranged from 0.20-0.33 dollars per kg; however, in 2013 when the disease hit, the price rose to 0.33-0.65 dollars per kg. [4]
Common Names of Diseases, The American Phytopathological Society; Tomato Diagnostic Key, The Cornell Plant Pathology Vegetable Disease Web Page; Tomato Diseases (Fact Sheets and Information Bulletins), The Cornell Plant Pathology Vegetable Disease Web Page; Gautam, P. 2008. Bacterial Speck Disease of Tomato: An Insight into Host-Bacteria ...
Alternaria solani is a fungal pathogen that produces a disease in tomato and potato plants called early blight. The pathogen produces distinctive "bullseye" patterned leaf spots and can also cause stem lesions and fruit rot on tomato and tuber blight on potato. Despite the name "early", foliar symptoms usually occur on older leaves. [3]
In May 2019 ToBRFV emerged on tomato crops in mainland Italy, in the Piemonte region. [11] This outbreak was eradicated. [12] Disease caused by tomato brown rugose fruit virus also emerged in North America in Autumn 2018, initially being reported from Mexico. This also included the first case of Capsicum being infected. [13]
Bacterial wilts of tomato, pepper, eggplant, and Irish potato caused by R. solanacearum were among the first diseases that Erwin Frink Smith proved to be caused by a bacterial pathogen. Because of its devastating lethality, R. solanacearum is now one of the more intensively studied phytopathogenic bacteria, and bacterial wilt of tomato is a ...
Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) is a DNA virus from the genus Begomovirus and the family Geminiviridae.TYLCV causes the most destructive disease of tomato, and it can be found in tropical and subtropical regions causing severe economic losses.
Spores spread to healthy tomato leaves by windblown water, splashing rain, irrigation, mechanical transmission, and through the activities of insects such as beetles, tomato worms, and aphids. [1] Provided the environment is conducive for disease development, lesions usually develop within 5 days of infection. [1]