Sertkaya, G2024-09-182024-09-1820021310-2818https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12483/13809This study was performed to survey CMV infection in sweet potato grown in South Turkey and to obtain CMV-free plants by meristem tip culture and to multiply that material by nodal segment culture. Sweet potato grown areas (Serinyol and Iskenderun) in Hatay were surveyed during June-August 2001 and 2002 and the plants with symptoms were searched for presence of cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) by using biological indexing and ELISA methods. The results of the survey conducted at two locations (Serinyol and iskenderun) showed that percentage of the plants with stunting, symptom ranged between 4.5% and 6% and percentage of the plants with common chlorosis and yellowing symptoms between 15% and 12.4% as depending on the locations. Regeneration ratio of the meristem tips from CW-infected plants of sweet potato genotype Hatay beyazi was 33.3%. Totally 36 plantlets were propagated from 4 CMV-free plantlets in 6 weeks after meristem tip culture stage by nodal segment culture and 35 plantlets of them began to develop10 days after transfer into pots.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessArticle16233382-s2.0-0036979346Q3WOS:000180674600006Q4