Identification Symptoms

The leaf curl is characterised by severe stunting of the plants with downward rolling and crinkling of the leaves.
Partial or complete sterility of the plant is also common.
Newly formed leaves show chlorosis. The older, curled leaves become leathery and brittle.
Plants are stunted due to shortening of the internodes.
Diseased plants look pale and produce more lateral branches resulting in bushy growth.
The disease is transmitted by the whitefly, Bemisia tabaci.
Total losses is in between 17.6% to 99.7%.
92.3% loss when infection occurred at 30 days after transplanting.
The yield reductions were 94.9, 90.0, 78.0, and 10.8% when plants got infected in 2, 4, 6, and 10 weeks after planting