Abstract:Sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.) is an important crop grown for its sucrose content used in sugar production around the world. Tomato bushy stunt virus (TBSV) is an RNA virus that belongs to the Tombusvirus genus of the family Tombusviridae (Hearne et al., 1990). The virus was first isolated from tomato, and it is known to infect a wide range of plants (Smith, 1935; Martelli et al., 1988; Hafez et al., 2010). In 1980, a natural infection of TBSV was reported in sugar beet leaves with chlorotic and necrotic ring s… Show more
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