Other Plant Disease -- Worldwide/Unknown
More crops are impacted by Potato virus Y (PVY). PVY has been around a long time but only recently has become a serious problem for potato growers in North America.
Visual detection of infected plants is more difficult in new cultivars that show no or only mild symptoms when infected. New PVY strains that only cause minor symptoms in foliage have become more prevalent. These circumstances have allowed the amount of PVY in potato-growing regions to increase. It's a "Typhoid Mary" effect
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?5743542&promed&0
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