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Cotton leaf curl virus (leaf curl disease of cotton )
Cotton leaf curl virus
leaf curl disease of cotton
Cotton leaf curl bigeminivirus, Cotton leaf curl geminivirus
Africa: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Cote d'Ivorie, Egypt, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo; Asia: Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates; Europe: Germany; North America: USA.
TX
2025-08-04
virus
China
Main: cotton; Other: okra, pepper, melon, tomato
CLCuV
Cotton leaf curl virus is a whitefly-transmitted virus affecting cotton, causing leaf curling, vein thickening, and stunting. It is not seed-transmitted and is managed through whitefly control and resistant varieties.
2 Known Hosts
Glycine max
soybean
No
CLCuV-1, CLCuV-2, CLCuV-3, CLCuV-4
Whitefly transmitted virus only. Only one report of possible infection of soybean by this virus in India (CLCuV-2). Seed is not known to be a pathway.
Chemical, cultural
The use of chemicals and cultural methods to control the white fly.
2025-08-04 16:14:32
CLCuV-1
Cotton Leaf Curl Virus. In: Crop Protection Compendium. Wallingford, UK: CAB International. www.cabi.org/cpc.
CLCuV-2
Raj SK, Khan MS, Snehi SK, Srivastava S, Singh HB, 2006. A yellow mosaic disease of soybean in northern India is caused by Cotton leaf curl Kokhran virus. Plant Disease, 90:975.
CLCuV-3
Nadeem, S., Riaz Ahmed, S., Luqman, T., Tan, D. K., Maryum, Z., Akhtar, K. P., ... & Liu, Y. (2024). A comprehensive review on Gossypium hirsutum resistance against cotton leaf curl virus. Frontiers in Genetics, 15, 1306469.
CLCuV-4
Shafqat, U., Yasin, M. U., Shahid, M., Hussain, S., Shahzad, T., Mahmood, F., ... & Zeid, A. (2024). Evaluating the impact of biogenic nanoparticles and pesticide application in controlling cotton leaf curl virus disease (CLCuD) in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.). Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture, 11(1), 149.
Gossypium spp.
cotton
No
CLCuV-1, CLCuV-2, CLCuV-3, CLCuV-4
Seed is not known to be a pathway. Whitefly transmitted only.
chemical, cultural
The use of chemicals and cultural methods to control the white fly.
2025-08-04 11:01:40
CLCuV-1
Cotton Leaf Curl Virus. In: Crop Protection Compendium. Wallingford, UK: CAB International. www.cabi.org/cpc.
CLCuV-2
Raj SK, Khan MS, Snehi SK, Srivastava S, Singh HB, 2006. A yellow mosaic disease of soybean in northern India is caused by Cotton leaf curl Kokhran virus. Plant Disease, 90:975.
CLCuV-3
Nadeem, S., Riaz Ahmed, S., Luqman, T., Tan, D. K., Maryum, Z., Akhtar, K. P., ... & Liu, Y. (2024). A comprehensive review on Gossypium hirsutum resistance against cotton leaf curl virus. Frontiers in Genetics, 15, 1306469.
CLCuV-4
Shafqat, U., Yasin, M. U., Shahid, M., Hussain, S., Shahzad, T., Mahmood, F., ... & Zeid, A. (2024). Evaluating the impact of biogenic nanoparticles and pesticide application in controlling cotton leaf curl virus disease (CLCuD) in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.). Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture, 11(1), 149.
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