Thursday, 28 July 2016

PRO/PL> Cucumber green mottle mosaic virus - Australia: (WA)

Other Plant Disease -- Australia
[Cucumber Green Mottle Mosaic Virus], a potentially devastating plant virus able to infect a number of horticultural crops, has been detected for the first time in Western Australia [WA], in a cucumber crop near Geraldton. In 2014 the virus was first found in Australia in watermelon crops in the Northern Territory [ProMED-mail post http://bit.ly/1OErTGV].
Department of Agriculture and Food WA's [DAFWA] John van Schagen said [they] would investigate the source, however

Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://bit.ly/2aNzm8M

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