Tuesday, 6 December 2016

PRO/PL> Potato spindle tuber viroid, reservoir hosts - Australia: (WA)

Other Plant Disease -- Australia
During studies conducted from 2007 to 2012 in Western Australia, _Potato spindle tuber viroid_ (PSTVd - EPPO A2 List) was detected in volunteer and wild plants in the Gascoyne Horticultural District. In this irrigated area, a wide range of temperate, tropical and subtropical crops are grown including solanaceous crops, and PSTVd was 1st detected [there] in field tomatoes (_Solanum lycopersicum_) in 2006. Since then, PSTVd has frequently been detected in field crops of tomato, pepper and chilli

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