EPPO Global Database

Apple fruit crinkle viroid(AFCVD0)

Distribution details in Japan

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 2010: Present, restricted distribution
First recorded in: 1976
Comments
Northern part of Honshu. First observed in 1976 in an apple orchard (cv. Mutsu) in Iwate Prefecture. Later found in Aomori Prefecture (on cv. Nero-26).
References
* Ito T, Kanematsu S, Koganezawa H, Tsuchizaki T, Yoshida K (1993) Detection of a viroid associated with apple fruit crinkle disease. Annals of the Phytopathological Society of Japan 59, 520-527.

* Ito T, Koshida K (1998) Reproduction of Apple fruit crinkle disease symptoms by Apple fruit crinkle viroid. Acta Horticulturae 472, 587-594.

* Koganezawa H, Ito T (2010) Apple fruit crinkle viroid. In: Hadidi A, Barba M, Candresse T, Jelkmann W (eds) Virus and Virus-Like Diseases of Pome and Stone Fruits. APS Press, pp 53-55.

* Koganezawa H, Ohnuma Y, Sakuma T, Yanase H (1989) [Apple fruit crinkle" a new graft transmissible fruit disorder of apple]. Bulletin of the Fruit Tree Research Station 16, 57-62 (in Japanese).