Other Plant Disease -- Australia
A project was undertaken to determine the drivers behind epidemics of _Tomato spotted wilt virus_ (TSWV) in potato crops. While major epidemics in potato are rare, when they do occur - as during the late 1990s and early 2000s in parts of southern Australia - significant losses will occur. TSWV infection in tubers can lead to internal blackening and necrosis. Often the symptoms may not be obvious from the outside of the tuber.
Major outbreaks in the late 1990s coincided with the first
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?7274096&promed&0
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