OLD VIRUS , NEW CROP :
BCTV
IS BACK by Lee Allen An old cultivator pest , the Beet Curly Top Virus , is back and seems to be setting its sights on hemp and cannabis plants along with many other plant species and families .
hat ’ s old is new again with a reported
Wresurgence of Beet Curly Top Virus
( BCTV ), a plague from Mexico to Canada “ spreading havoc in over 300 species in 44 plant families ” for more than a century , according to the agriculture folks at New Mexico State University . And it ’ s affecting cannabis and hemp . The EPPO Global Database ( European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization ) lists the malady as “ widespread ” in nearly a dozen states , most of them in the west , while noting it is “ present ” in 10 other states .
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