Detection of iris yellow spot tospovirus in onion in Israel
In Israel (Bet Shean Valley) in March 1997, 20 to 30 % of field-grown onion (Allium cepa) showed unusual symptoms characterized by straw-coloured ringspots on leaves and flower stalks. Analyses showed that the plants were infected by iris yellow spot tospovirus. A high incidence of the disease observed in the surrounding fields and in other onion-growing areas in Israel was associated with large populations of Thrips tabaci. This virus is also known to occur in the Netherlands (Derks ; Lemmers, 1996), where it has occasionally been detected in iris and leek.
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Acta Horticulturae, no. 432, 132-139.
Gera, A.; Cohen, J.; Salomon, R.. Raccah, B. (1998) Iris yellow spot tospovirus detected in onion (Allium cepa) in Israel.
Plant Disease, 82(1), p 127.