Control Strategies
Control strategies for cassava mosaic disease include sanitation and plant resistance. In this case sanitation means using cuttings from healthy plants to start with a healthy plot, and maintaining that healthy plot by identifying unhealthy plants and immediately removing them. This strategy does not protect them from being inoculated by white flies, but research shows that the virus is more aggressive in plants infected from contaminated cuttings than by insect vectors. There are also specific varieties that fare better against some viruses than others, so plant resistance is possible. For example, hybrids that are a result of crossing cassava and other species, such as Manihot melanobasis and M. glaziovii have been shown to have considerable resistance to CMV.
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