Unusually severe symptoms are a characteristic of the current epidemic of mosaic virus disease of cassava in Uganda

Annals of Applied Biology

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 479-490

  Gibson, R W ^a   Legg, J P ^a   Otim Nape, G W ^a  

^a Namulonge Agricultural and Animal Production Research Institute Uganda   (Uganda)

Author keywords

ACMV; African cassava mosaic virus; Cassava; geminivirus; severity; Uganda; virus; whitefly

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN CASSAVA MOSAIC VIRUS; CASSAVA; DISEASE SEVERITY; SWEET-POTATO WHITEFLY;

UGANDA;

ALEYRODIDAE; BEMISIA TABACI; EUPHORBIACEAE; HOMOPTERA; MANIHOT ESCULENTA;

EID: 0030301261     PISSN: 00034746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7348.1996.tb07108.x     Document Type: Article

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