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Research Project: Basic and Applied Approaches for Pest Management in Vegetable Crops

Location: Vegetable Research

Title: Tracking sweet potato leaf curl virus through field production: Implications for sustainable sweetpotato production and breeding practices

Author
item Andreason, Sharon
item MCKENZIE-REYNOLDS, PETRINA - Orise Fellow
item Whitley, Kaitlyn
item Coffey, John
item Simmons, Alvin
item Wadl, Phillip

Submitted to: Plants
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 4/23/2024
Publication Date: 5/2/2024
Citation: Andreason, S.A., Mckenzie-Reynolds, P., Whitley, K.M., Coffey, J., Simmons, A.M., Wadl, P.A. 2024. Tracking sweet potato leaf curl virus through field production: Implications for sustainable sweetpotato production and breeding practices. Plants. 13:1267. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13091267.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13091267

Interpretive Summary: N/A

Technical Abstract: Sweet potato leaf curl virus causes one of the most destructive diseases of sweetpotato production in the U.S. and worldwide. Sweetpotato planted for commercial production and breeding is often infected with this insect transmitted virus during the growing season. In this study, infection was tracked throughout two years of growing seasons, and early planting was demonstrated to remain largely free of this virus due to low insect vector pressure. This finding impacts sweetpotato cultivation practices and will be of interest to sweetpotato growers, breeders, and industry.