Characteristics and Control of Viruses Infecting Peppers

Résumé du livre

Some 35 viruses have been reported to infect peppers. Of these, more than half are transmited aphids. The other viruses are transmited by nematodes, thrips, leafhoppers, whiteflies, beetles and fungi. Severalare transmited by contact and-or through the soil by mechanisms not yet understood. Most pepper viruses are distributed wordwide with the exception of chili veinal mottle virus, pepper mild mosaic virus and pepper mottle virus. These have been reported only in certais geographic areas. Virus-infected peppers generally exhibit a variety of symptoms,the most common of which are mosaic, mottle, necrosis and leaf distortion. Many of these viruses cause considerable yield losses. Various methods of control, aimed primarly at the vectors of the viruses.