Open AccessThe Biology, Epidemiology, and Management of Rice Tungro Disease in Asia
Author(s) -
O. Azzam,
T. Chancellor
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
plant disease
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.663
H-Index - 108
eISSN - 1943-7692
pISSN - 0191-2917
DOI - 10.1094/pdis.2002.86.2.88
Subject(s) - biology , oryza sativa , plant disease , microbiology and biotechnology , genetics , gene
Many farmers in South and Southeast\udAsia describe rice tungro disease as a cancer\uddisease because of the severe damage it\udcauses and the difficulty of controlling it\ud(121). As the most important of the 14 rice\udviral diseases, tungro was first recognized\udas a leafhopper-transmitted virus disease in\ud1963 (88). However, tungro, which means\ud“degenerated growth” in a Filipino dialect,\udhas a much longer history. It is almost\udcertain that tungro was responsible for a\uddisease outbreak that occurred in 1859 in\udIndonesia, which was referred to at the\udtime as mentek (83). In the past, a variety\udof names has been given to tungro, including\udaccep na pula in the Philippines, penyakit\udmerah in Malaysia, and yelloworange\udleaf in Thailand (83)