Claim · model-written summary
In Barbados, 16% of 1213 varieties showed yellow leaf symptoms in 1997.
- Taxon
- sugarcanet0
- Outcome
- varieties showed symptomse0
- Value
- 16%e0
- Qualifier
- 1213 varietiese0
- Setting
- Barbadose0
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Verbatim
e0“16% of 1213 varieties showed symptoms is Barbados”
t0“sugarcane”
Title
Yellow leaf syndrome in the sugarcane variety collections of Barbados and Guadeloupe
Sylvan I. Alleyne; Jean‐Heinrich Daugrois; P. S. Rao Agritrop (Cirad) 1997
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Observation Yellow leaf syndrome has been identified in Guadeloupe and Barbados.
- Observation The characteristic symptom is yellowing of the midrib on the lower lamina surface.
- Association A luteovirus is strongly associated with yellow leaf disease, although causality is unresolved.
- Observation Diseased cuttings transmit yellow leaf disease.
- Observation Some aphids transmitted yellow leaf disease under controlled conditions.
- Observation In Guadeloupe, 4% of 456 varieties showed yellow leaf symptoms in 1997.
- Observation The number of symptomatic varieties in Barbados increased from 1996 to 1997.
- Observation First ratoon fields showed more symptoms than plant cane fields in Barbados.
- Observation Only 15% of the breeding population in Barbados showed symptoms.
- Observation The authors report that 64% of commercial varieties are resistant.
- Recommendation The authors expect resistant varieties and good husbandry to reduce disease importance.