Prevention and Control
1. Use resistant or tolerant cultivars 2. Protect seedlings from whiteflies 3. Use only good seeds and healthy transplants 4. Control whiteflies 5. Immediately remove infected-looking plants and bury them 6. Control weeds 7. Do not plant cotton near tomato and/or other crops susceptible to whiteflies or vice 8.use acephate -imidacloprid at 50% - 1.8% respectively, at every seven days. versa 8. Plow-under all plant debris after harvest or burn them when possible 9. Practice crop rotation by planting crops that are not susceptible to whitefly
Cotton leaf curl virus (CLCuV) is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Geminiviridae.
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