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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2007, Vol. 23 ›› Issue (2): 374-374.

Special Issue: 园艺 烟草种植与生产

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Advance of Research on Tobacco Tomato Spotted wilt Disease

Li Cheng, Li Yongzhong, WenGuosong, LiuYating   

  • Online:2007-02-05 Published:2007-02-05

Abstract: Tobacco Tospovirus disease was a devastating disease in some tobacco production areas. The disease was caused by the tomato spotted virus,the typical member of Tospovirus genus in Bunyaviridae family.Tobacco tomato spotted wilt disease was found in many provinces.This disease is widely distributed in Yunnan production tobacco area and it causes above 60% losses in some area. The tomato spotted wilt disease is one of the most potentially dangerous disease of tabacco in the world. This paper reviewed the distribution,symptomology, causal agents, pathogenic mechanism, the composition and function of virus genome and epidemiology and management of the tobacco tomato spotted wilt disease.

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