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Symptoms on Pepper and Chilli

    

  • Organs attacked  :
Leaves flowers Fruits

 

  • Symptoms :
    • Yellowing plants, often showing reduced growth, sometimes with shorter internodal apices (figures 1 and 2).
    • Deformed and discolored leaves: smaller, rolled up, rather yellow (figure 3), sometimes and/or purplish (anthocyanin).
    • Leaf blade sometimes thicker.
    • Flowers sometimes showing morphological aberrations.
    • Rare fruits with reduced growth.
  • Signs  : no visible signs, confirm the possible presence of vectors.
  • Possible confusion : herbicidal phytotoxicity, nutritional disorder, asphyxiation, etc.
  • Production areas affected :
Mayotte Reunion Guyana
Guadeloupe Martinique New Caledonia
French Polynesia    

 

  • Phytoplasmas reported on pepper :
Last change : 07/07/22
Phytoplasma-Poivron1
Figure 1
Phytoplasma-Poivron2
Figure 2
Phytoplasma-Poivron3
Figure 3