Cooperation Centre for Scientific Research Relative to Tobacco
Centre de Coopération pour les Recherches Scientifiques Relatives au Tabac

Tobacco and cotton are major crops in the Southeastern USA. Cropping systems involving tobacco-cotton rotations have become quite common. Farm management decisions are typically based on a systems approach where goals, such as improvement of soil...

Bacterial (Granville) wilt, caused by Ralstonia solanacearum , is a major disease of tobacco in both North and South Carolina. In contrast, Granville wilt rarely occurs on tobacco in Georgia, Florida and Virginia. This difference was noted over...

The effects of using DNA markers for elimination of genetic background in backcross breeding were examined through the introduction of PVY-T resistance to an industrial variety. The recipient parent was Coker 319, the most cultivated variety in...

In China, CMV, PVY and TEV transmitted by aphids have seriously impaired tobacco production in most tobacco-growing areas. In this paper, several predictive models, concerning aphid-transmitted tobacco virus disease, were formulated. Based on the...

The necrotic strain of Potato virus Y (PVY), causing brown venial necrosis of tobacco is an economically important in Poland, but even more serious in Hungary. Other important crops infected include potatoes, which is most likely the major source of...

La Vera is the principal tobacco growing area in Spain, and one of the most important phytopathological problems on the crop is caused by Meloidogyne spp. A flue-cured tobacco trial was conducted in La Vera to characterize Meloidogyne population...

The Model for tobacco protection against diseases, pests, weeds and parasites (predators) was developed as a result of the investigations carried out throughout 20 years. The model ensures the achievement of the preset task, namely growing healthy,...

During 1997 and 1998, in the Middle Tiber Valley (central Italy), four field experimental trials were carried out in order evaluate the control of broomrape ( Orobranche ramosa L.) in Virginia tobacco by some pesticides. In 1997, maleic hydrazide...

The plants of the F1 hybrid Nicotiana tabacum L. cv. TB-566 x N. alata Link et Otto failed to grow beyond the two-leaf stage when grown in natural soil and beyond four leaves when cultured from cotyledon segments in vitro . Viable...

In Rumania, semi-oriental tobacco has been grown since the end of the 19th century, together with the acclimation of the tobacco Yaka in our country. The name of the Rumanian semi-Oriental tobacco is Ghimpati, which is the name given to the first...