Published Date: 2010-03-29 19:00:08
Subject: PRO/PL> Undiagnosed disease, tomato - Chile: (AR) RFI
Archive Number: 20100329.0983

UNDIAGNOSED DISEASE, TOMATO - CHILE: (ARAUCANIA) REQUEST FOR INFORMATION
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Date: Fri 26 Mar 2010
Source: FreshPlaza, CanaldeNoticias.cl report [edited]
<http://www.freshplaza.com/news_detail.asp?id=61109>


Growers are warned about possible damage to tomatoes. Along the route
Angol-Renaico [northern Araucania], tomato plants are drying out from
a strange disease. It seems that the disease is not yet under control
and it can produce big losses for small farmers in that region.

[So far,] 300 hectares [approx 740 acres] have been affected. Local
growers [usually] take bank loans over 30 and 60 days, but this
catastrophe is making it very difficult to pay their debts.

[Byline: Jahir Lombana]

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[Drying out of tomato plants can be due to a number of fungal and
bacterial wilt and root rot pathogens. With the limited information
provided above it is not possible to determine the cause of the
problem. We would be grateful for further information.

Maps
Chile:
<http://z.about.com/d/gosouthamerica/1/0/E/Y/Chile1.gif>
<http://healthmap.org/r/01bJ>
Regions of Chile:
<http://www.scielo.cl/fbpe/img/rchnat/v78n1/img10-01.jpg>
Araucania (region IX):
<http://www.visitingchile.com/eng/maps/political-map-of-araucania-region.htm>

Links
List of diseases and pathogens of tomato:
<http://www.apsnet.org/online/common/names/tomato.asp>
Symptom identification guide for tomato:
<http://vegetablemdonline.ppath.cornell.edu/diagnostickeys/TomWlt/TomWiltKey.html>
and
<http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/publications/tomatoproblemsolver/>
Fact sheets of some major tomato diseases via:
<http://vegetablemdonline.ppath.cornell.edu/factsheets/Tomato_List.htm> and
<http://www.extension.iastate.edu/publications/pm1266.pdf>. - Mod.DHA]
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