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Methods of controlling Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) and its vector Bemisia tabaci in the Maltese Islands *
Author(s) -
Attard D.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
eppo bulletin
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.327
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1365-2338
pISSN - 0250-8052
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2338.2002.d01-24.x
Subject(s) - tomato yellow leaf curl virus , biology , cultivar , leaf curl , horticulture , plant virus , vector (molecular biology) , virus , maltese , botany , agronomy , virology , gene , biochemistry , recombinant dna , linguistics , philosophy
Bemisia tabaci and Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) were first observed in Malta in the early 1990s and caused serious damage to glasshouse and outdoor tomato crops. Chemical, physical and biological control methods have been developed, but the effective method has been the use of virus‐tolerant cultivars.