Epidemiology of citrus variegated chlorosis in state of São Paulo. / Epidemiologia da clorose variegada dos citros no Estado de São Paulo.

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2002

RESUMO

This work aimed to evaluate the progress and spatial pattern of Citrus Variegated Chlorosis (CVC) in three regions in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. By bimonthly visual assessments three Pêra sweet orange/ Rangpur lime orchards in three regions (Northwest, Center and South) were mapped from july 1998 to december 2000. Progress was evaluated by fitting nine models do disease progress curves and by analysis of derivative curves. No model could be fitted to disease progress curves. Derivative curves showed peaks concentrated in spring and summer. To characterize spatial pattern the following analysis were used: ordinary runs, isopath areas;binary Taylor law; dispersion index and foci dynamics and structure analysis. All techniques showed small differences between regions and characterized CVC spatial pattern as slightly aggregated. By means of autocorrelation, spectral density analysis, discriminant analysis and lag correlation was tried to establish temporal patterns for vegatative flush emission, symptom expression, detection of assymptomatic infections. Also, was tried to establish correlations among variables and between them and weather variebles. A comparison by non-parametric tests was made between seasons and regions. Number of new vegetative flushes was the most distinctive variables for regions. The disease related variables (assymptomatic infections, total infection, symptoms and relative bacteria concentration) showed seasonal patterns but no statistical difference was found between seasons. Northwest orchard showed higher number of vegetative flushes. South orchard assymptomatic infections were higher than for the other orchards. There was no difference in relative bacteria concentration between regions.

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citrus crop clorose-variegada-dos-citros plant diseases citricultura epidemiology sharpshooters cigarrinha-vetora-de-doença citrus variegated chlorosis doenças de plantas epidemiologia

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