Symptoms on eggplant
- 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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