EPPO Global Database

Abutilon yellows virus(ABYV00)

Distribution details in United States of America

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 1999: Present, no details
First recorded in: 1977
Comments
EPPO Reporting Service (99/134): observed for the first time in Abutilon theophrasti (weed) in Illinois in 1977 and later characterized as a new closterovirus.
References
* Liu, H.Y.; Wisler, G.C.; Duffus, J.E. (1998) Abutilon yellow virus - a new closterovirus transmitted by banded-wing whitefly (Trialeurodes abutilonea). Abstracts of papers presented at the 7th International Congress of Plant Pathology, Edinburgh, GB, 1998-08-09/16 (Abst. 1.11.8).