Pepper golden mosaic virus explained
Pepper golden mosaic virus is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Geminiviridae. It affects Capsicum annuum and all tomatoes. It was first discovered in Texas in 1987, and was called Texas Pepper Virus, and a two years later in Mexico after it destroyed up to 100% of plants in afflicted fields in the autumn of 1989, mainly in north-west Mexico.[1] [2]
References
- http://www.cabdirect.org/abstracts/19902302321.html;jsessionid=62E2C10D28354F47F1491934D0819FB0 Brown, J. K.; Poulos, B. T. - Serrano golden mosaic virus - A newly identified whitefly-transmitted geminivirus of pepper and tomato in the United States and Mexico. Plant Disease 1990 Vol. 74 No. 9 pp. 720
- Stenger, D. C., Duffus, J. E., and Villalon, B. (1990). Biological and genomic properties of a geminivirus isolated from pepper. Phytopathology 80:704–709
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