Pacific Pests, Pathogens and Weeds - Online edition

Pacific Pests, Pathogens & Weeds

Bean common mosaic (043)


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Summary

  • Worldwide distribution. Pasture and food legumes, e.g., yard long and French bean, and weeds, e.g., wild passion fruit. Important disease that lowers pod yields.
  • Plants stunted, leaves distorted with light and dark green patches. Spread by aphids, seed (>30%) and, less importantly, in pollen.
  • Cultural control: select healthy plants for seed; do not plant new crops next to old; interplant food legumes with maize; resistant varieties (in Africa mixtures of e.g., yard long bean varieties planted together); collect and burn trash after harvest.
  • Chemical control: not a method for aphid control.

Common Name

Bean common mosaic virus, common mosaic of beans.

Scientific Name

Bean common mosaic virus. The abbreviation is BCMV.


AUTHORS Helen Tsatsia & Grahame Jackson
Information from Schwartz HF, et al. (2016) Bean common mosaic virus (BCMV). BugwoodWiki. (https://wiki.bugwood.org/HPIPM:Bean_Common_Mosaic_Virus#:~:text=Bean%20common%20mosaic%20virus%20(BCMV)%20causes%20Bean%20common%20mosaic%20of,the%20field%20or%20nearby%20field.&text=The%20virus%20can%20infect%20few%20plants%20beside%20dry%20bean); and CABI (2019) Bean common mosaic virus (common mosaic of beans). Crop Protection Compendium. (https://www.cabi.org/cpc/datasheet/9424); and from GrowVeg (undated) Bean mosaic virus Bean Common Mosaic Virus (BCMB). (https://www.growveg.com.au/plant-diseases/uk-and-europe/bean-mosaic-virus/).

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