Connecting smallholder tomato producers to improved seed in West Africa

Table 3 Detection of tomato-infecting begomoviruses in West African countries in 2007–2008 based on squash blot-PCR assays

Tomato-infecting begomovirus
Country	Tomato yellow leaf curl Mali virus	Tomato leaf curl Mali virus	Pepper yellow vein virus
Benin	X	X
Burkina Faso	X	X	X
Ghana	X	X	X
Mali	X	X	X
Niger			X
Senegal		X	X
Togo	X	X	X

Squash blot-PCR assays were conducted as described in Zhou et al. [19]. The number of samples tested per country ranged from 38 to 95

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