The following are recommendations for executing the survey using the approved methods for pest surveillance. The recommendations are developed through literature review and consultation with subject matter experts.
Signs and SymptomsPotato symptoms include stunting, and small, elongated, cracked, and/or deformed tubers (Owens and Verhoeven, 2015).
Tomato symptoms include rugosity, bunching, stunting, chlorosis, necrotic flecks on underside of leaf veins (Harris and Browning, 1980), epinasty, lateral twisting of new leaflets, reduced fruit size (Hailstones et al., 2003), and a rough, puckered, dark green leaf texture (Ling et al., 2013).