OPENOpen Access licenseEtiology of Sweet Potato Chlorotic Dwarf Disease in Argentina
AffiliationsAuthors and Affiliations
- L. Di Feo
- S. F. Nome
- E. Biderbost , Instituto de Fitopatología y Fisiología Vegetal (IFFIVE-INTA), Camino 60 Cuadras, Km 5 1/2 (5119), Córdoba, Argentina
- S. Fuentes
- L. F. Salazar , International Potato Center (CIP), Apartado 1558, Lima, Peru
Published Online:23 Feb 2007https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS.2000.84.1.35
Abstract
Chlorotic dwarf (CD), the most important disease in the sweet potato-producing regions of Argentina, is caused by the synergistic combination of two aphid-transmitted potyviruses with a whitefly-transmitted crinivirus. Sweet potato feathery mottle virus, sweet potato mild speckling virus, and a crinivirus (serologically related to sweet potato chlorotic stunt virus) were associated with CD. The synergistic combination of these three viruses reproduced the disease.
