Following the recent discovery of the Rice stripe necrosis virus (RSNV) in Burkina Faso (Sereme et al. 2014) and Benin (Oludare et al. 2015), a targeted rice-associated soil sampling campaign was launched in January 2016 in order to assess the presence of RNSV and its vector in Mali. Forty-six samples were collected from rain fed rice (Oryza sativa) from three places around Bamako where RSNV-like symptoms had been reported. Farmers’ reported symptoms were crinkling, distortion, and necrosis of young leaves,
Decroës, A., Bagayoko, I., Mahillon, M., Verhaegen, H., Lienard, C., Legrève, A., & Bragard, C. (2017). Detection of the Rice stripe necrosis virus Causing Rice Crinkle Disease and its Vector Polymyxa graminis f. sp. colombiana in Mali. Plant Disease : an international journal of applied plant pathology, 101(12), 2155. https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-06-17-0801-PDN (Original work published 2017)