SUSTAINABILITY OF VARIETY VEGETABLES TO PHYTOPLASMOSIS: SYMPTOMS AND DIAGNOSTICS

Summary. New disease of Indian Sesame was revealed for the fi rst time in Moldova and Transnistria which causative agent belongs to phytoplasma. Symptoms of the disease are yellowing, leafroll, intense defoliation, signi fi cantly shortening of the branches, as well as the lack of fl owers and fruits on the productive parts of the main shoot and at last drying. Identi fi cation of pathogen was conducted visually, by the tetracycline test and PCR in agarose gel. New varieties of Sesame Swan and Mulatto with dense pubescence of the leaves and fl owers have been observed healthy for lack of phytoplasma.