Welcome to Tospovirus - a new way to learn about an economically important plant virus. Tospoviruses are a group of thrips-transmitted plant viruses which cause huge losses in the horticultural industry each year.
The University of Maryland and the Maryland Department of Agriculture produced a color fact sheet in 1990 when tospovirus problems were really just beginning to show in the Greenhouse Industry. Tospovirus is an electronic update to that publication, and is an interactive pictorial database that will enable you to see and learn about the many manifestations of this virus in florist and other crops. You can also review the latest ideas on detection and control, learn technical terms through the hypertext glossary, get in contact with diagnostic laboratories and order commercially available diagnostic test kits from the Web.
Tospovirus is a part of NurseryWebTM (1999) - An Electronic Information Resource for the Green Industry in Maryland, and a part of the National Horticultural Database System - HortBase
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The Tospovirus Database
Content
Experts - Ethel M. Dutky, Anne B. Sindermann
Concept -
Dr. John D. Lea-Cox
Design - Tamela D. Michaels
Webmaster - Christopher J. Nohe
Questions? Comments? - Dr. John Lea-Cox
Updated 24th March 1999; Copyright © DSLMN 1999, Library of Congress. Worldwide Rights Reserved.