mosaic disease

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mosaic disease

(məˈzeɪɪk)
n
1. (Plant Pathology) a serious viral disease of plants, esp tobacco, maize, and sugar cane, in which the leaves become mottled by discoloration
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Specifically, to prepare the GSS plan, the idea started in 2016 while being part of the CIAT team that confirmed the cassava mosaic disease (CMD) outbreak in Cambodia, and by working to improve diagnostic methods to detect viral diseases in rice, beans, papaya, cassava, and other crops," Carvajal shared.
As it turned out, it was the problem of the country's cassava plantations being attacked by the virus of mosaic disease.
Dr Teresia Munga said they are breeding varieties that are resistant to cassava mosaic disease and cassava brown streak disease.
Molecular characterization and infectivity of a Tomato leaf curl New Delhi virus variant associated with newly emerging yellow mosaic disease of eggplant in India.
Geminivirus diseases have greatly affected the agriculture of Asia and Africa, where tomato yellow leaf curl disease, cassava mosaic disease, and maize streak disease have resulted in complete losses in infected fields (Legg and Fauquet, 2004; Shepherd et al., 2010; Sattar et al., 2013).
Genetic diversity among viruses associated with sugarcane mosaic disease in Tucuman, Argentina.
Cassava mosaic disease (CMD) severity was scored using a scale of 1-5 where 1 denotes no symptom and 5 denotes highly diseased plants [30].
Management of yellow vein mosaic disease of okra through pesticide/bio-pesticide and suitable cultivars.
(2001), progression of the rose mosaic disease under greenhouse conditions was very slow, which should make PNRSV easy to eradicate through sanitary selection.
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