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Harmful Characteristics and Pathogen Analysis of Robinia Mosaic Disease

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Robinia mosaic disease is a common disease of black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia). It begins to occur in spring from April to May. Its symptoms manifest as systemic mosaic. The leaf color is uneven, with some leaves showing mottling of intermingled light green and dark green, and presenting blister-like spots. Some leaves are deformed; the leaf shape becomes narrower and longer, and in severe cases becomes linear. In some leaf axils, adventitious buds sprout and produce thin, weak small branches with extremely short internodes, and the leaves are narrow and small; the axillary buds of the small branches sprout again and produce small branches and leaves, and in this way they sprout and grow level by level, forming a clustered branch state with dense branches and leaves. This affects the normal growth of the tree. After young trees are affected, they gradually

Robinia mosaic disease is a common disease of black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia). It begins to occur in spring from April to May. Its symptoms manifest as systemic mosaic. The leaf color is uneven, with some leaves showing mottling of intermingled light green and dark green, and presenting blister-like spots. Some leaves are deformed; the leaf shape becomes narrower and longer, and in severe cases becomes linear. In some leaf axils, adventitious buds sprout and produce thin, weak small branches with extremely short internodes, and the leaves are narrow and small; the axillary buds of the small branches sprout again and produce small branches and leaves, and in this way they sprout and grow level by level, forming a clustered branch state with dense branches and leaves. This affects the normal growth of the tree. After young trees are affected, they gradually form a "small old tree" appearance.

Typical diseased leaves showing symptoms of robinia mosaic disease were collected. After extraction, differential centrifugation, and electron microscope observation, the pathogen of robinia mosaic disease is a viral disease caused by a spherical virus. At present, there is no effective control method. However, when propagating seedlings, do not collect propagation material from diseased plants; when diseased plants are found, promptly pull them out and destroy them to prevent the spread of the disease.

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