The Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus (TYLCV), transmitted by the whitefly (Bemisia tabaci), is present in several countries of the world, and for some years now also in Costa Rica.
In our country, the virus was first identified in 2012 in a tomato plantation in Grecia, Alajuela, by a group of researchers from the University of Costa Rica led by M.Sc. Natalia Barboza-Vargas, from the Center for Research in Cellular and Molecular Biology (CIBCM).
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