Solanum nigrum, a New Host of Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus. K. I. Wilson, Plant Protection Research Station, Abu Ghraib, Iraq. A. S. Al-Beldawi, Moneara Amin, and H. A. Nema, Plant Protection Research Station, Abu Ghraib, Iraq. Plant Dis. 65:979. Accepted for publication 21 February 1981. Copyright 1981 American Phytopathological Society. DOI: 10.1094/PD-65-979.

Solanum nigrum plants artificially inoculated with tomato yellow leaf curl virus developed a yellow vein mosaic on the leaves. Naturally infected S. nigrum plants were observed in and around tomato fields in Iraq. Bemisia tabaci transmitted the virus from infected tomato plants to S. nigrum.