TY - JOUR 
A1 - Triki, M. A.
AU - Zouba, Anis
AU - Khoualdia, O.
AU - Ben Mahamoud, O.
AU - Takrouni, M. L.
AU - Garnier, Monique
AU - Bove, J. M.
AU - Montarone, M.
AU - Poupet, A.
AU - Flores, R.
AU - Daros, José A.
AU - Fadda, Z.
AU - Moreno, Pedro
AU - Durán-Vila, Núria
T1 - "Maladie des feuilles cassantes" or brittle leaf disease of date palms in Tunisia: Biotic or abiotic disease?
Y1 - 2003
SN - 1125-4653
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11939/4613
AB - “Brittle leaf disease of date palms”, known in southern Tunisia since the 1960s, has assumed epidemic proportions from 1986 on. The symptoms are associated
with manganese deficiency and the presence of a small
double stranded RNA of host origin. Even though no
pathogen has yet been found, some observations do not
fit a purely abiotic cause of the disease. In particular, affected trees seem to cluster into foci, and mineral analyses show no significant differences between the soils of
affected and unaffected trees. Further work is required
to understand the etiology of the disease.
LA - en
ER -