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Horticultural crops :: Fruits:: Papaya
Leaf curl:  Papaya leaf curl virus
 Symptoms
  • Curling, crinkling and distortion of leaves, reduction of leaf lamina, rolling of leaf margins inward and downward, thickening of veins.
  • Leaves become leathery, brittle and distorted.Plants stunted.Affected plants does not produce flowers and fruits.
  • Spread by whitefly Bemisia tabaci

Management

  • Uproot affected plants.
  • Avoid growing tomato, tobacco near papaya.
  • Spraying with systemic insecticides to control the vector
Infected leaf

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