He was among the first to recognize mosaic disease, which crippled the sugar industry.

Control strategies for cassava mosaic disease include sanitation and plant resistance.

These included maize streak and cassava mosaic disease.

In time, it became clear that there were at least two different viruses causing mosaic diseases with similar symptoms in celery.

They cause bright yellow mosaic disease showing vein clearing and molting of plant tissues.

Mosaic diseases of plants.

In 1898, he published results on the filtration experiments demonstrating that tobacco mosaic disease is caused by an infectious agent smaller than a bacterium.

The severity of cassava mosaic disease is impacted by environmental factors such as light intensity, wind, rainfall, plant density and temperature.

In 1886, Adolf Mayer first described the tobacco mosaic disease that could be transferred between plants, similar to bacterial infections.

Mayer published a paper in 1886 on the disease which he named as "mosaic disease of tobacco" and described its symptoms in detail.

The first report of cassava mosaic disease (CMD) was from East Africa in 1894.

In 1882, Adolf Mayer (1843-1942) described a condition of tobacco plants, which he called "mosaic disease" ("mozaïkziekte").

In 1892 Dmitri Ivanovsky had discovered that the cause of tobacco mosaic disease could pass through Chamberland's porcelain filter.

LMV, and thus the mosaic disease, is then spread locally from plant to plant by the feeding stylets of aphids.

Beijerinck coined the term of "virus" to indicate that the causal agent of tobacco mosaic disease was of non-bacterial nature.

The investigations of tobacco mosaic disease and subsequent discovery of its viral nature were instrumental in the establishment of the general concepts of virology.

1898 - Martinus Beijerinck used filtering experiments to show that tobacco mosaic disease is caused by something smaller than a bacterium, which he names a virus.

In California (USA), mosaic diseases of celery (Apium graveolens) were reported as early as 1922.

His researches on the virus causing the mosaic disease in tobacco plants led to the isolation of a nucleoprotein which displayed tobacco mosaic virus activity.

Of the various viral diseases inflicting legume crops, Mungbean Yellow Mosaic disease is one of the most destructive and widely distributed.

University of Illinois Extension - Report on Plant Disease: Mosaic Diseases of Cucurbits

Yellow mosaic disease of many legumes in India and other South Asian countries is caused by whitefly (Bemisia tabaci Genn.)

A mosaic disease, believed to be BYMV, was first reported in the early 1900s infecting garden peas (Pisum sativum) in the Northeastern United States.

A Contagium vivum fluidum as the Cause of the Mosaic Diseases of Tobacco Leaves - Martinus W. Beijerinck (1899)

Major diseases are the cassava mosaic disease and cassava bacterial blight, which have the greatest economic impact, cassava brown leaf spot, cassava anthracnose, and white thread fungus.