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Whitefly and whitefly-borne viruses in the tropics : Building a ... - cgiar

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Table 1. Incidence of cassava mosaic disease (CMD) <strong>and</strong> sweetpotato virus disease (SPVD), disease severity <strong>and</strong> <strong>whitefly</strong> abundance on cassava <strong>and</strong> on<br />

sweetpotato <strong>in</strong> selected regions of Madagascar, 1998.<br />

Prov<strong>in</strong>ce Cassava a<br />

Sweetpotato a<br />

No. <strong>Whitefly</strong> CMD No. <strong>Whitefly</strong> SPVD<br />

fields counts <strong>Whitefly</strong> Cutt<strong>in</strong>g Total Severity fields counts Incidence Severity<br />

<strong>in</strong>fection <strong>in</strong>fection <strong>in</strong>cidence<br />

Antananarivo 35 7.1 5.6 (7.8) 25.5 31.0 2.6 11 0.01 2.6 3.3<br />

Fianarantsoa 22 4.3 7.1 (21.9) 63.9 71.0 3.5 15 0 2.4 2.0<br />

Toliara 12 5.9 6.4 (11.2) 39.7 46.0 3.2 7 0.10 17.6 2.3<br />

Mahajanga 42 2.5 6.9 (11.0) 34.0 41.0 3.3 6 0 0 -<br />

Mean 5.0 6.5 (11.6) 40.8 47.3 3.1 - 0.03 5.7 2.5<br />

a. Figures are means for each prov<strong>in</strong>ce. <strong>Whitefly</strong> counts, <strong>whitefly</strong> abundance on cassava (number of whiteflies per top five leaves) <strong>and</strong> on sweetpotato (per m<strong>in</strong>ute<br />

count); <strong>whitefly</strong> <strong>in</strong>fection, figures <strong>in</strong> paren<strong>the</strong>ses transformed to multiple <strong>in</strong>fection units to allow for multiple <strong>in</strong>fection (Gregory, P. H. 1948. The multiple<br />

<strong>in</strong>fection transformation. Ann. Appl. Biol. 35:412-417); severity of disease measured on an ascend<strong>in</strong>g 1-5 scale, from low to severe.<br />

Whiteflies <strong>and</strong> <strong>Whitefly</strong>-<strong>borne</strong> Viruses <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> Tropics

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