EPPO Global Database

Begomovirus chillicapsici(CHILCU)

Hosts

Important note about the classification of host plants in GD:
Categories have been assigned by the EPPO Secretariat on the basis of available data at the time of entry. They correspond to a qualitative evaluation of the importance of the host plant for the pest concerned and remain indicative only.
Further explanation of categories is available in the guide.
Organism Type
Capsicum annuum (CPSAN) Major host
* Brown JK, Zerbini FM, Navas-Castillo J, Moriones E, Ramos-Sobrinho R, Silva JCF, Fiallo-Olive E, Briddon RW, Hernández-Zepeda C, Idris A, Malathi VG, Martin DP, Rivera-Bustamante R, Ueda S, Varsani A (2015) Revision of Begomovirus taxonomy based on pairwise sequence comparisons. Archives of Virology 160, 1593-1619. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00705-015-2398-y
------- based on isolate considered as chilli leaf curl virus

* Paul S, Emmadi V, Saxena S, Sarkar M, Mandal B, Kumar R, Sinha P, Roy A (2025) RPA-assisted CRISPR-Cas12a-enabledpoint-of-care diagnostic platform for chili leaf curl virus with fluorescent and colorimetric readouts. Frontiers in Microbiology 16, 1644322. doi 10.3389/fmicb.2025.1644322

* Senanayake DMJB, Mandal B, Lodha S, Varma A (2007) First report of Chilli leaf curl virus affecting chilli in India. Plant Pathology 56, 343.
Solanum lycopersicum (LYPES) Major host
* Brown JK, Zerbini FM, Navas-Castillo J, Moriones E, Ramos-Sobrinho R, Silva JCF, Fiallo-Olive E, Briddon RW, Hernández-Zepeda C, Idris A, Malathi VG, Martin DP, Rivera-Bustamante R, Ueda S, Varsani A (2015) Revision of Begomovirus taxonomy based on pairwise sequence comparisons. Archives of Virology 160, 1593-1619. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00705-015-2398-y
------- based on isolate considered as chilli leaf curl virus

* Sangeeta, Kumar RV, Yadav BK, Bhatt BS, Krishna R, Krishnan N, Karkute SG, Kumar S, Singh B, Singh AK (2023) Diverse begomovirus-betasatellite complexes cause tomato leaf curl disease in the western India. Virus Research 328, 199079. doi: 10.1016/j.virusres.2023.199079.
------- several isolates found on tomato

* Venkataravanappa V, Swarnalatha P, Reddy CNL, Chauhan N, Krishna Reddy M (2016) Association of recombinant Chilli leaf curl virus with enation leaf curl disease of tomato: a new host for chilli begomovirus in India. Phytoparasitica 44, 213-223.
Amaranthus sp. (AMASS) Host
* George B, Kumar RV, Chakraborty S (2014) Molecular characterization of Chilli leaf curl virus and satellite molecules associated with leaf curl disease of Amaranthus spp. Virus genes 48(2):397-401.
-------  isolated from plant showing leaf curl. One clone was completely sequencing and shared about 95% identity with ChiLCV.
Carica papaya (CIAPA) Host
* Brown JK, Zerbini FM, Navas-Castillo J, Moriones E, Ramos-Sobrinho R, Silva JCF, Fiallo-Olive E, Briddon RW, Hernández-Zepeda C, Idris A, Malathi VG, Martin DP, Rivera-Bustamante R, Ueda S, Varsani A (2015) Revision of Begomovirus taxonomy based on pairwise sequence comparisons. Archives of Virology 160, 1593-1619. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00705-015-2398-y
------- isolate from Carica papaya

* Udavatha P, Mesta RK, Basavarajappa MP, Venkataravanappa V, Devappa V, Narasimha Reddy LRC, Shankarappa KS (2023) Identification of Novel Begomoviruses Associated with Leaf Curl Disease of Papaya (Carica papaya L.) in India. Agronomy 13(1), 3. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy13010003
------- several isolates from different districts of Karnataka. See also supplementary material
Hibiscus cannabinus (HIBCA) Host
* Brown JK, Zerbini FM, Navas-Castillo J, Moriones E, Ramos-Sobrinho R, Silva JCF, Fiallo-Olive E, Briddon RW, Hernández-Zepeda C, Idris A, Malathi VG, Martin DP, Rivera-Bustamante R, Ueda S, Varsani A (2015) Revision of Begomovirus taxonomy based on pairwise sequence comparisons. Archives of Virology 160, 1593-1619. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00705-015-2398-y
------- based on one isolate attributed to chilli leaf curl virus

* Paul S, Ghosh R, Chaudhuri S, Ghosh SK, Roy A (2009) Biological and Molecular Variability of the Begomoviruses Associated with Leaf Curl Disease of Kenaf in India. Journal of Plant Pathology 91 (3), 637-647.
------- one isolate. Later attributed to chilli leaf curl virus (see Brown et al., 2015)
Physalis minima (PHYMI) Host
* Venkataravanappa V, Ashwathappa KV, Hiremath S, Manjunatha L, Shankarappa KS, Krishna Reddy M, Lakshminarayana Reddy CN (2023) Begomovirus and DNA-satellites association with mosaic and leaf curl disease of Solanum nigrum and Physalis minima: the new hosts for chilli leaf curl virus. Virus Diseases 34, 504–513. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13337-023-00850-x
------- from symptomatic Physalis minima growing as weeds
Solanum tuberosum (SOLTU) Host
* Mubin M, Briddon RW, Mansoor S (2009) Complete nucleotide sequence of chili leaf curl virus and its associated satellites naturally infecting potato in Pakistan. Archives of Virology 154, 365-368.
------- 99% identity to an isolate of the Pakistan strain of ChiLCV (AF336806), which is considered as exemplar isolate of chilli leaf curl virus in ICTV website (see below).

INTERNET
* ICTV report on virus classification and taxon nomenclature. Begomoviruses. https://ictv.global/report/chapter/geminiviridae/geminiviridae/begomovirus

------- possibly a rare host as no other record found despite importance of the crop (2026-02)
Urtica dioica (URTDI) Host
* Iqbal MJ, Hussain W, Zia-Ur-Rehman M, Hameed U, Haider MS (2016) First Report of Chilli leaf curl virus and Associated Alpha- and Beta-satellite DNAs Infecting Nettle Weed (Urtica dioica) in Pakistan. Plant Disease 100(4), 870.
------- from Urtica dioica as weed, showing leaf curl and vein-yellowing symptoms. 94.4% identity with AF336806, which is considered as exemplar isolate of chilli leaf curl virus in ICTV website.
Vasconcellea cauliflora (VSLCA) Host
* Tripathi S, Verma A, Verma R, Khar A (2025) Vasconcellea cauliflora: A New Host of Chilli Leaf Curl Virus New disease reports 52:e70057. 4 pp. https://doi.org/10.1002/ndr2.70057
------- identified from 5 symptomatic plants from an experimental research 1-acre field in the vicinity of tomato and chilli plantations. The overall average disease incidence was 12% across the field.