Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus is one of the worst plant pathogens and impacts more than 1,000 different species, some of which include major food crops like tomato, pepper, peanut, potato, and tobacco.
This disease spreads primarily by small thrips that act as the insect vector acquiring and furthering the disease. Yield loss by this disease globally has been of huge importance and a major threat.
Causal organism
The Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus belongs to the Orthotospovirus genus from the Tospoviridae family….
