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Cotton Leaf Curl Virus, A Threat to Arizona Cotton?

A serious virus disease of cotton in Pakistan is distantly related to cotton leaf crumple in Arizona. It is much more destructive on cotton than leaf crumple, and has never been found in the western hemisphere. Cotton leaf crumple in Arizona causes only modestly damaging midseason infections, while leaf curl, has had a major impact on the crop in Pakistan. Modern transportation and the increasing movement of living plants in global trade has resulted in them recent introduction of a similar disease of another crop to the western hemisphere.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/210328
Date03 1900
CreatorsNadeem, Athar, Xiong, Zhongguo, Nelson, Merritt
ContributorsSilvertooth, Jeff, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Arizona
PublisherCollege of Agriculture, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ)
Source SetsUniversity of Arizona
Languageen_US
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typetext, Article
Relation370099, Series P-99

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