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Sanitary status of stone fruit industry in the Mediterranean countries:

Egypt

Ghanem G.A.

in

Di Terlizzi B. (ed.), Myrta A. (ed.), Savino V. (ed.).

Stone fruit viruses and certification in the Mediterranean countries: problems and prospects

Bari : CIHEAM

Options Méditerranéennes : Série B. Etudes et Recherches; n. 19 1998

pages 45-46

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Gama1 A.

Giza (Egypt)

The total of stone in Egypt is 70,000 Fedans (Fedan=0.4 with an of 340,000 tons of

peach, and plum the most stone in Egypt. They cultivated in

many

El-

and Sinai.

and stone agents cause the

highest in stone Among such agents, plum pox

to in the above-mentioned

causing to

et al.,

1992; Abo-El-Ella and

Amal, 1994). The symptoms associated with infection in leaves and include

mosaic, vein banding, leaf and and on the

spots on the stone seen (Ghanem

et al.,

1997).

(1988) had identified the time in Egypt. incidence

to and location. This is most to in

Qualubia

was out in 1997 to evaluate the status of the local wild type and to Visual inspection and

indicated that the isolate the Qualubia and El-Fayoum was closely

to the (Ghanem

et al.,

1997). studies in

indicated, small 200 nucleotides) between these isolates (unpublished).

such as apple spot (ACLSV)

known to exist in Egypt have not been Only one

publication was issued on the incidence of tomato on (Ouf

et al.,

1991). symptoms of unknown etiologies, in peach and mottling-mosaic symptoms in

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and apple have in many locations in Egypt (Abdel-

Salam, unpublished).

A

investigation should be made to examine the of the new isolate of Qualubia and El-Fayoum, as well as the incidence and ACLSV in stone and apples.

and A. (1994). Studies on diseases of stone Thesis,

Faculty of Ain Shams pp.

J. (1988). pox disease of stone in Egypt. of a mission to Egypt.

pp.

and and

of plum pox in Egypt. The 7th National of and

of Vegetables and in Suez Canal 1997.

and of plum

pox on stone in Egypt. Acta Horticulturae, 309: 119-124.

OUF, and (1991). Tomato a

disease of (Vitis vinifern L.) in Egypt. Assiut Journal Agricultural Science, 2 2 39-54.