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The Tomato Crop

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The tomato has been bred for fruit production under a wide range of environmental conditions, from the short season cold climates to the warm humid tropics and to the hot arid deserts. Wherever man has attempted to grow tomatoes he has had to contend with numerous diseases. Before the introduction of resistant varieties. Fusarium wilt was perhaps the most destructive disease to tomatoes. Growers were constantly forced from ‘wilt land’ to newly cleared fields for growing tomatoes. Eventually, entire areas of the eastern United States were lost to commercial tomato production due to this disease. In some areas of the western US the processing tomato industry was virtually destroyed by beet curly top virus which developed because of the extensive sugar beet production. In other temperate regions, diseases such as late blight. Septoria leaf spot, bacterial canker and bacterial speck have built up to epidemic proportions, completely ruining crops.

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    Jeff G. Atherton

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    Jehoshua Rudich

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Watterson, J.C. (1986). Diseases. In: Atherton, J.G., Rudich, J. (eds) The Tomato Crop. The Tomato Crop. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3137-4_11

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