High incidence of Sugarcane yellow leaf virus (SCYLV) in sugar plantations and germplasm collections in Thailand
A. T. Lehrer A B , A. Kusalwong C and E. Komor A DA Pflanzenphysiologie, Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany.
B Hawaii Agriculture Research Center, Aiea, HI, USA.
C Plant Pathology Division, Department of Agriculture, Jatuchak, Bangkok, Thailand.
D Corresponding author. Email: ewald.komor@uni-bayreuth.de
Australasian Plant Disease Notes 3(1) 89-92 https://doi.org/10.1071/DN08036
Submitted: 25 July 2007 Accepted: 3 July 2008 Published: 17 July 2008
Abstract
Sugarcane plantations and germplasm collections from across Thailand were tested in two surveys within the years 2000–2003 for Sugarcane yellow leaf virus infection. Twenty-five to 100% of cultivars tested at each plantation/germplasm collection were infected, among them those which had been imported from international breeding stations. Plantation management based on resistant cultivars or virus-free seed cane plantation practices is proposed.
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank the Thai Sugar Trading Board, several Thai sugar companies and the Thai Phytopathological Society, which supported A. Lehrer for travel. This study would not have been possible without the support of numerous helping hands from Thai Department of Agriculture staff and personnel at the various germplasm collections. We are also thankful to staff from Mitr Phol, Kasetphol and Kumphawapi sugar companies. Last but not least we want to thank Dr Susan Schenck and the Hawaii Agriculture Research Center for fruitful collaboration, and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft for supporting the research project in Hawaii.
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