I agree with Mr Dipiyotis. Floral abnormalities in your images look like stolbur phytoplasma-infecteing tomato plants. SeePracros et al., Mol Plant Microbe Interact. 2006 Jan;19(1):62-8.
yes it is, this is viral infection known big bug . viruses can cause enlargement of the leaflike flower parts (sepals) surrounding the base of a blossom in plants of the nightshade family. The tomato big-bud virus appears to affect the sepals of the tomato flower rather specifically. These structures enlarge greatly under the influence of the virus and fuse to form huge
Hi, although phytoplasma cause disease like this symptom, but in my experience that I evaluate resistance different tomato cultivars to TYLCV, I see this symptom in some cultivars, if you have whiteflies in that farm, may it is cause by Tomato yellow leaf curl virus.
Based on the discussions, you can do the following things.
1. Do Electron microscopy of the infected leaf sample and check for presence of viruses. There are mosaic symptoms on leaf which is one of the diagnostic feature of viral infection
2. Check with primers of phytoplasma or primers of Tomato leaf curl virus for the presence using lnfected plant sample DNA.
Please refer to the article in the link provided above where in the pictures of the phytoplasma infection such as sepal hypertrophy, leafy structure of sepals, (Overdeveloped petioles which is also noticed in one of the posted picture ) are given. That could answer your query.
It looks like the typical symptom of phytoplasma infection, probably stolbur phytoplasma. I recommend to strat with phytoplasma detection - isolate DNA and do nested PCR with P1/P7 primers followed by R16F2/R2, product ca 1200bp. If negative look for viruses.
I screened reaction of tomato accessions to TYLCV and I saw these symptoms in some accessions. so I ask you to check your plants for Tomato yellow leaf curl virus.
These symptoms look like the viral disease of tomato. It may be due to the tomato leaf curl virus. or new phytoplasma disease looks like sesame phyllody and the little leaf of brinjal. Recently, these symptoms observed in tomato fields in India.