A crop native to the Americas, Nicotiana tabacum, domesticated by Indigenous peoples in South America, with cultivation and ceremonial use spreading through the Americas long before European contact. Tobacco became one of the first profitable export crops of colonial North America, particularly in Virginia and Maryland from the early seventeenth century, and its cultivation there was built on the forced labor of enslaved Africans, a plantation economy that helped entrench and expand chattel slavery across the American South for the following two centuries. Tobacco remains a major global cash crop today, grown in China, Brazil, India and elsewhere, though production has declined in many wealthier countries as public health concern about smoking has grown since the mid-twentieth century.
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Scientific Name Tobacco
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Source Reniform Nematode (Wikipedia)
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Source Tobacco Mosaic Virus (Wikipedia)
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Source Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus (Wikipedia)
Source Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus (Wikipedia)
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Tobacco mosaic virus was the first virus ever discovered, isolated from diseased tobacco plants.
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Nicotiana tabacum, or cultivated tobacco, is an annually grown herbaceous plant of the genus Nicotiana.
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A crop native to the Americas, Nicotiana tabacum, domesticated by Indigenous peoples in South America, with cultivation and ceremonial use spreading through the Americas long before European contact.
View the SourceFall Armyworm (Wikipedia)
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Some examples of targeted crops include cotton, tobacco, sweet corn, rice, peanuts, and even fruits such as apples, oranges, and many more.
Green Peach Aphid (Wikipedia)
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The worst damage on plants is in the early summertime for the aphid breeding peak, because winged dispersants from Prunus spp. where the egg of overwintering aphid stage deposit nymphs on summer hosts migrating to tobacco, potatoes and cruciferous vegetables to be harmful continuously after a few generations. == Distribution == The green peach aphid is found worldwide but is likely of Asian origin, much like its primary host plant, Prunus persica.
Affected By: Myzus persicae, Article text
The worst damage on plants is in the early summertime for the aphid breeding peak, because winged dispersants from Prunus spp. where the egg of overwintering aphid stage deposit nymphs on summer hosts migrating to tobacco, potatoes and cruciferous vegetables to be harmful continuously after a few generations. == Distribution == The green peach aphid is found worldwide but is likely of Asian origin, much like its primary host plant, Prunus persica.
View the Source Tomato Leafminer (Wikipedia)
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In favorable weather conditions, eight to ten generations can occur in a single year. === Hosts === Tomato is the main host plant, but T. absoluta also attacks other crop plants of the nightshade family, including potato, eggplant, pepino, pepper and tobacco.
Fusarium Wilt (Wikipedia)
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Tomato, tobacco, legumes, cucurbits, sweet potatoes and banana are a few of the most susceptible plants, but it also infects other herbaceous plants.
Tobacco Mosaic Virus (Wikipedia)
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It is known to infect members of nine plant families, and at least 125 individual species, including tobacco, tomato, pepper (all members of the Solanaceae), cucumbers, a number of ornamental flowers, and beans including Phaseolus vulgaris and Vigna unguiculata.
Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus (Wikipedia)
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The host range of TSWV includes agronomically important crops such as tomatoes and tobacco.
Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus (Wikipedia)
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The primary host for TYLCV is the tomato plant, and other plant hosts where TYLCV infection has been found include eggplants, potatoes, tobacco, beans, and peppers.
Reniform Nematode (Wikipedia)
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It has a wide host range that includes fruit trees, lentil, cotton, pigeon pea, tea, tobacco, soybean, pineapple, banana, okra, coconut, cabbage, sweet potato, alfalfa, corn, asparagus, palm, cucumber, tomato, squash, cassava, radish, eggplant, guava, melon, chickpea, and ginger.
Thielaviopsis basicola (Wikipedia)
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Examples of susceptible hosts include petunia, pansy, poinsettia, tobacco, cotton, carrot, lettuce, tomato, and others.
Pythium debaryanum (Wikipedia)
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It is known as a plant pathogen on many kinds of wild and cultivated plants, including peanut, beet, eucalyptus, tobacco, and pine trees.
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