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Plum
Pox Virus
Plum
pox, also called sharka, is considered one of the most devastating
viral diseases worldwide of stone fruit, including peaches, apricots,
plums, nectarines, almonds, and sweet and tart cherries. The virus
distorts and discolors fruit, reduces yield and shortens
tree life, but it poses no threat to human or animal health. Infected
plants are typically destroyed to prevent the spread of the disease,
causing great economic loss to the growers.
First described on plums in Bulgaria in 1915, plum pox has spread
to a large part of Europe, the Mediterranean, the Middle East
(Egypt and Syria), India, and Chile. Plum pox was first found
in North America in Pennsylvania in 1999. It was then discovered
in eastern Ontario and Nova Scotia, Canada, in 2000 and in western
New York and southwestern Michigan in July 2006.
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