date:May 12, 2017
ms and financial impact
PepMV is a tomato disease that affects both fruit quality and yields and there are known to be three strands present on UK crops. Symptoms on fruit can include marbling and flaming marks, as well as split or malformed fruit.
Severe infections on crops can have significant economic impact, with one nursery estimating that the disease caused around 400,000 of crop loss in 6ha of the variety Piccolo.
Gracie Emeny, knowledge exchange manager at AHDB said, As one of the most