Sweetpotato latent virus

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Acronym: SwPLV

 Synonyms: Sweetpotato virus N (SPV-N)

Diagnostic summary

  • What you see on plants

- transient mild chlorosis may develop.

 

- Most sweetpotato cultivars are infected without showing any symptom (latent).

- Reported as only affecting sweetpotato in Asia and Africa.

- Transmitted by mechanical inoculation and by grafting, but not by contact between plants or by seed.

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