Pacific Pests, Pathogens & Weeds - Mini Fact Sheet EditionSugarcane Fiji disease (077)
Pacific Pests, Pathogens & Weeds - Mini Fact Sheet EditionSugarcane Fiji disease (077)
Summary
- Widespread distribution. Asia, Africa, Oceania. On sugarcane, lowland pitpit, and other Saccharum species. Occasionally, an important virus disease.
- Galls occur on the leaves; leaves are stiff, stunted, and flat-topped (as if chewed).
- Spread is by planthoppers, and in planting setts.
- Cultural control: use varieties bred for resistance (Fiji and Australia); do not take planting material from affected plants, even if some stalks in a stool look healthy; carefully remove diseased plants as soon as disease seen without spreading insects; collect and burn trash, after harvest.
- Chemical control: none recommended.
Common Name
Fiji disease of sugarcane
Scientific Name
Sugarcane Fiji disease fijivirus; the abbreviation is FDV.
AUTHORS Helen Tsatsia & Grahame Jackson
Information from CABI (2012) Fiji disease virus Crop Protection Compendium. (https://www.cabi.org/cpc/). Photo 1 Bureau of Sugar Experimental Stations, Australia.
Produced with support from the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research under project PC/2010/090: Strengthening integrated crop management research in the Pacific Islands in support of sustainable intensification of high-value crop production, implemented by the University of Queensland and the Secretariat of the Pacific Community.
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