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Symptoms  on eggplant

  

  • Organs attacked  :
Leaves flowers Fruits

 

  • Symptoms :
    • Chlorotic plants with more or less slow growth, with shorter internode apices (photos 1 and 2).
    • Deformed and discolored leaves: smaller, rather yellow, sometimes and/or purplish (anthocyanin) (figure 3).
    • Leaf blade sometimes thicker.
    • Abnormally upright flowers, often sterile with morphological aberrations:
      • the sepals, whose veins take on a purplish color, remain completely joined and the calyx is hypertrophied (big bud) (figure 3);
      • Rare fruits with reduced growth.
  • Signs  : no visible signs, confirm the possible presence of vectors.
  • Possible confusion : herbicide phytotoxicities, etc.
  • Production areas affected :
Mayotte Reunion Guyana
New Caledonia Guadeloupe Martinique
French Polynesia    

 

 

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    Last change : 07/07/22
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