Open AccessFirst record of tomato late blight in Basrah province (Short Notes)
Author(s) -
Labeed A. Al-Saad,
Aqeel Alyousuf,
Mohamed M. Mezaal
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
basrah journal of agricultural sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2520-0860
pISSN - 1814-5868
DOI - 10.37077/25200860.2018.103
Subject(s) - blight , phytophthora infestans , geography , veterinary medicine , horticulture , biology , medicine
PlaTomato production in Al-Zubair district, Basrah province, Iraq was affected by late blight disease that was not recorded before in this geographical area. The symptoms were firstly appeared in December 2018 in several farms of Al-Zubair district. The infection was spread widely at January 2019 according to the environmental conditions that fitted the development infection. The pathogen was identified morphologically as Phytophthora infestans.
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