January
1999
, Volume
83
, Number
1
Pages
29
-
32
Authors
Jesús
Navas-Castillo
,
Sonia
Sánchez-Campos
, and
Juan Antonio
Díaz
,
Estación Experimental “La Mayora,” Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 29750 Algarrobo-Costa, Málaga, Spain
;
Elisa
Sáez-Alonso
,
Departamento de Sanidad Vegetal, Consejería de Agricultura y Pesca, Almería, Spain
; and
Enrique
Moriones
,
Estación Experimental “La Mayora,” Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 29750 Algarrobo-Costa, Málaga, Spain
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Accepted for publication 16 September 1998.
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Field surveys were conducted in the autumn of 1997 in the main tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum)-growing regions of southern Spain following a severe tomato yellow leaf curl epidemic in tomato. Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV)-Is was found to have spread to all regions and to coexist with TYLCV-Sr, which has been present since 1992. TYLCV-Is was also shown to be the causal agent of bean leaf crumple, a novel disease that has caused severe economic losses in fresh-market common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) crops of southern Spain since September 1997. The disease was reproduced by infecting beans with cloned TYLCV-Is obtained from infected tomato plants collected in Almería. This is the first report of bean leaf crumple disease and the first report of a geminivirus in bean from Spain.
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Additional keywords:
geminivirus,
Lycopersicon esculentum,
Phaseolus vulgaris,
TYLCV
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