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Jun 15, 2021 · What is Curly Top Virus? Curly top virus can be found in over 44 plant families such as garden tomatoes, beets, beans, spinach, cucurbits, potatoes, and peppers. Sugar beets are the most commonly infected hosts, and the disease is often referred to as Beet Curly Top Virus (BCTV).
Jun 10, 2021 · If your tomato plants stop growing and the leaves start to look curly and thick, it could be a sign that they’re infected with curly top virus. It’s a disease spread by insects called leafhoppers, and it usually means your tomato plant is toast.
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Do your vegetable or fruit plants' top leaves look shrivelled and sad? Are the plants stunted overall? Then you may be dealing with curly top virus.
Curly top virus is widely distributed in Texas. It is most noted for destruction of tomatoes, peppers, and sugar beets, but watermelon, beans, spinach, and squash are also susceptible as well as many weeds and ornamentals.
Dec 7, 2022 · Curly top is caused by a virus transmitted by the beet leafhopper. Many crops are affected, including tomato, bean, squash, beet, spinach, cucumber, and pepper. Typical symptoms of the disease include puckering and upward rolling and twisting of leaves, followed by a general yellowing of the plant. Young plants may be killed.
BCTV causes the disease known as curly top of tomato. This virus can infect a wide range of host plants and usually occurs in semiarid areas in western North America, from Canada to Mexico. BLH can transmit the disease to a wide variety of plants, including more than 300 plant species of dicotyledonous plants.
Symptoms. Tomato and pepper plants infected with curly top are stunted and have upwards curled, yellow leaves. The veins on the underside of tomato leaves are purple. Infected plants may not produce fruit, or fruit that develops will ripen prematurely.
In areas where curly top is chronic, dense plant spacing, shading, row covers, and intercropping have been reported to reduce levels of curly top. A page dedicated to understanding Curly Top Disease of Tomato and their hosts, symptoms and control properties.
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Beet Curly Top Virus Since the early 1900s, curly top disease has been a known cause of serious crop damage across the Western United States. Curly top disease is caused by BCTV, which belongs to the family Geminiviridae, and genus Curtovirus.
Beet curly top virus (BCTV) is a pathogenic plant virus of the family Geminiviridae, containing a single-stranded DNA.
