EPPO Global Database

Tomato chlorosis virus(TOCV00)

Distribution details in United Kingdom (England)

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 2024: Absent, pest eradicated
First recorded in: 2018
Comments
EPPO Reporting Service (2018/129) : first found in May 2018 in a tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) production glasshouse (6.2 ha) in Kent. Under eradication.

EPPO Reporting Service (2020/126) : testing on the subsequent host plants after replanting were negative for tomato chlorosis virus and it is therefore declared eradicated.
References
* NPPO of the United Kingdom (2018-05, 2020-06).

* Skelton A, Harju V, Fowkes AR, Frew L, Buxton‐Kirk A, Ward R, Vazquez‐Iglesias I, Conyers C, Barrett B, McGreig S, Adams IP (2024) First report of Tomato chlorosis virus in tomato in the United Kingdom. New Disease Reports 49(2), e12274. https://doi.org/10.1002/ndr2.12274
------- report of the outbreak of 2018 eradicated in 2020.