Disease intensity of some tomato viroses in Serbia

Abstract

In this paper rye present the data on the disease intensity of the tomato plants grown in glass and plastic-houses, and in the open field. The infection was caused by the following viruses: Tomato mosaic virus (ToMV), Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV), Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV), Alfalfa mosaic virus (AMV), Potato virus X (PVX), Potato virus Y (PVY), Tomato black ring virus (TBRV), Tomato ringspot virus (ToRSV), Tomato aspermy virus (TAV), and Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV). These viruses represented most frequent tomato pathogens in Serbia. According to the obtained results, it could be concluded that 92.94 % of the rested tomato plants grown in glass and plastic-houses, and 89.82 % grown in the open field were infected by one of the above viruses. Most of the plant samples were infected by two or more viruses. The most frequent viruses - tomato pathogens in Serbia were ToMV, PVY and TMV.