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Effects of Ghanaian Cocoa Swollen-shoot Virus on Young Bearing Trees of a Range of Varieties

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 October 2008

G. Lockwood
G. Lockwood
Affiliation:
Cocoa Research Institute (C.S.I.R.), P.O. Box 8, Tafo, Ghana
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Summary

Four-year-old seedlings of twenty-eight hybrid progenies were infected with the Ghanaian swollen-shoot virus strain A, but all were too severely affected to be of practical value in combating the disease. Sensitivity was assessed by comparison with uninoculated controls; reduction in crop and in growth and deterioration of canopy were correlated. The Amelonado × Amazon crosses were no more sensitive than the better inter-Amazon progenies. The rapid decline of the infected trees may have been partly due to infection coinciding with the slowing down of vegetative growth as cropping commenced.

Type
Research Article
Information
Experimental Agriculture , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , January 1973 , pp. 31 - 39
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1973

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