Symptoms  on eggplant

• Organs attacked  :

• 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.

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• Signs  : no visible signs, confirm the possible presence of vectors.
• Possible confusion : herbicide phytotoxicities, etc.

• Production areas affected :