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spotted wilt

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spotted wilt [′späd·əd ′wilt]
(plant pathology)
A virus disease of various crop and wild plants, especially tomato, characterized by bronzing and downward curling of the leaves.


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quot;TSWV" points to resistance to the Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus.
During the early 1990s, he collaborated with Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture scientists to tackle an emerging tomato spotted wilt virus epidemic in vegetable and ornamental greenhouses.
Horticulturists and plant pathologists from the University of Arkansas and North Carolina State University are studying the South American tomato because it possesses a gene that makes the plants resistant to the tomato spotted wilt virus.
 
 
 
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