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 2024: 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).

EPPO Reporting Service (2024/145) : also found in Diospyros kaki in southern part of Honshu.
References
* Hataya T (2024) Genetic diversity of apple fruit crinkle viroid populations in Japanese persimmons and the infectivity of a predominant sequence variant to tomato plants. European Journal of Plant Pathology 169(2), 273-285.

* 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).

* Sano T, Yoshida H, Goshono M, Monma T, Kawasaki H, Ishizaki K (2004) Characterization of a new viroid strain from hops: evidence for viroid speciation by isolation in different host species. Journal of General Plant Pathology 70, 181-187.