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SPOTTED WILT of tomato, first recorded in Great Britain by K. M. Smith1 in 1931, is now prevalent in the country, and is especially troublesome and difficult to control in gardens and mixed nurseries, where a variety of plants are grown, on account of the wide host range of the virus and the efficiency of its insect vector, Thrips tabaci. Control measures have to be directed towards the extermination of the insect vector and the destruction of infected plants, so that the detection of the virus in those perennial plants able to act as reservoirs from which the virus may be introduced into successive crops is often a matter of considerable importance.
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AINSWORTH, G. Detection of Spotted Wilt Virus in Chrysanthemums. Nature 137, 868 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137868b0
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