Identification Symptoms

  • Curling, crinkling and distortion of leaves, reduction of leaf lamina, rolling of leaf margins inward and downward, thickening of veins.
  • Leaves become leathery, brittle and distorted. Plants stunted.Affected plants does not produce flowers and fruits.
  • Spread by whitefly Bemisia tabaci.
  • Sometimes all the leaves at the top of the plant are affected by these symptoms. In advanced stages of the disease, defoliation takes place and the growth of the plant is arrested.
  • PLCV is in the family Geminiviridae. It is not transmitted mechanically.