Preferred name: Closterovirus tristezae
Taxonomic position: Viruses and viroids: Riboviria: Orthornavirae: Kitrinoviricota: Alsuviricetes: Martellivirales: Closteroviridae: Closterovirus
Other scientific names: CTV, Citrus tristeza closterovirus, Citrus tristeza virus
Common names in English: bud-union decline of citrus, die-back of lime, quick decline of citrus, seedling yellows of citrus, stem pitting of grapefruit, tristeza of citrus
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EPPO Categorization: A2 list
EU Categorization: A1 Quarantine pest (Annex II A), PZ Quarantine pest (Annex III), RNQP (Annex IV)
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EPPO Code: CTV000

Citrus tristeza virus (CTV) infects most species and hybrids of the Citrus genus, as well as a large number of other Rutaceae. Within the Euro-Mediterranean area, sweet orange (Citrus sinensis) and mandarin (C. reticulata) are the most widely cultivated hosts, followed by lemon (C. limon) and grapefruit (C. paradisi), and the tristeza sensitive sour orange (C. aurantium) is still considered to be the main citrus rootstock used. Passiflora sp. has been experimentally infected and is the only known non-rutaceous host species (Garnsey et al., 1998; Roberts et al., 2001).

Host list: Aeglopsis chevalieri, Afraegle paniculata, Arracacia xanthorrhiza, Citroncirus webberi, Citroncirus, Citropsis gilletiana, Citrus trifoliata, Citrus x aurantiifolia, Citrus x aurantium var. paradisi, Citrus x aurantium var. sinensis, Citrus x aurantium, Citrus x limon var. limettioides, Citrus, Clausena, Fortunella, Pamburus missionis, x Citrofortunella microcarpa

Within the Euro-Mediterranean region, severe CTV outbreaks were reported, firstly in Spain (1950s) and Israel (1970s) (Moreno and Garnsey, 2010) then later on in Italy (2002) (Davino et al., 2003 and 2005). Other CTV foci were reported from Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Lebanon, Morocco, Malta, Syria and Turkey (Djelouah and D’Onghia, 2001) and it is likely that CTV has the potential to establish wherever citrus are grown. Most isolates from the Mediterranean area have been characterized as mild CTV strains, although isolates associated with severe pathogenic behavior have been detected in some cases (Cerni et al., 2009; Yahiaoui et al., 2015).

EPPO Region: Albania, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, France (Corse), Georgia, Greece (mainland, Kriti), Israel, Italy (mainland, Sicilia), Jordan, Malta, Montenegro, Morocco, Portugal (mainland, Madeira), Spain (mainland), Tunisia, Türkiye
Africa: Algeria, Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Democratic republic of the, Cote d'Ivoire, Egypt, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Libya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, Reunion, Sao Tome & Principe, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Asia: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei Darussalam, China (Chongqing, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang), India (Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Delhi, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal), Indonesia (Java), Iran, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Korea, Republic, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia (Sabah, West), Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taiwan, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam, Yemen
North America: Mexico, United States of America (Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana, Texas)
Central America and Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Saint Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, Virgin Islands (British)
South America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil (Bahia, Minas Gerais, Rio Grande do Sul, Sao Paulo), Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela
Oceania: American Samoa, Australia (New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia), Fiji, French Polynesia, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Tonga

In the field, CTV is spread by several aphid species (Homoptera: Aphididae) when feeding on citrus trees. The virus is transmitted in a semi-persistent manner (Bar-Joseph et al., 1983), and is reported to have no latent period. The acquisition and inoculation periods range from 30 min to 24 h (Bar-Joseph et al., 1989). CTV can be transmitted by grafting during propagation of citrus planting material. It has also been transmitted from plant to plant throughout dodder (Cuscuta americana and C. subglutinosa) (Timmer et al., 2000). CTV is not a seed-borne virus (Roberts et al., 2001).

The most efficient aphid vector is Aphis (Toxoptera) citricidus (Yokomi et al., 1994), followed by Aphis gossypii. A. citricidus is still absent from most citrus-growing areas of the EPPO region, but it was discovered in the early 2000s in Portugal and parts of Spain. It has been shown that A. citricidus is up to 25 times more efficient at transmitting CTV isolates than A. gossypii (Gotwald, 2010). Although A. gossypii is less efficient than A. citricidus in transmitting the particularly severe CTV strains, it remains the main vector of CTV, in particular in most Mediterranean areas where A. citricidus still does not occur (Gottwald et al., 1997; Roberts et al., 2001, Roistacher et al., 1980; Roistacher and Bar-Joseph, 1984, Cambra et al., 2000; Niblett et al., 2000). In addition to these two main vector species, other aphid species can play a significant role in spreading the virus, such as A. spiraecola, A. aurantii, A. craccivora and Myzus persicae (Rocha-Peña et al., 1995; Yokomi et al., 1994; Marroquin et al., 2004).

Symptoms

CTV isolates differ in their pathogenicity to citrus plants depending on the virus strain, the variety of citrus, and the scion-rootstock combination (Yoshida, 1996). Mild CTV infections can occur latently for a long period and generally incite barely noticeable symptoms of both vein clearing and flecking, only on leaves of Mexican lime, through biological indexing (Roistacher, 1991). Economically damaging CTV infections are associated to the type of CTV strains and can conversely induce quick decline (QD), seedling yellows (SY) and stem pitting (SP) symptoms (Roistacher, 2006). 

Quick decline is a scion-rootstock incompatibility reaction caused by CTV on trees which have been graft-propagated on sour orange (C. aurantium) rootstock (Moreno and Garnsey, 2010). The canopy of infected trees suddenly becomes stunted, wilted, defoliated and dies within a few months. In some cases of latent infections, symptoms of inverse pitting or ‘honeycombing’ could be observed in the inner scion-rootstock interface. Stem pitting (SP) is usually associated with severe infections which affect the main trunk, the small branches and the twigs of grapefruit and sweet orange (C. x paradisi and C. sinensis) regardless to the rootstock, by inducing deep pits in the wood under enlarged cheesy bark, accompanied by a general growth cessation of the trees and easy breakage of the twigs (Roistacher, 1991; Rocha-Peña et al., 1995). Seedling yellows is mostly observed in sour orange, lemon, and grapefruit (C. aurantium, C. limon and C. x paradisi) seedlings; it is characterized by general stunting, production of small and pale leaves, reduced root system, and sometimes complete cessation of plant growth (Roistacher, 2006). 

Morphology

CTV is a Closterovirus with flexuous filamentous rod-shaped virions, a positive sense ssRNA genome of 19296 nucleotides, packaged in 11 nm × 2000 nm threadlike particles, organized in 12 open reading frames (ORFs) and two 5’ and 3’ untranslated regions (UTRs) (Bar-Joseph et al., 1979; Karasev et al., 1995). The 5’ half of the CTV genome encompasses the ‘replication gene block’ encoding proteins associated with viral replication function (Satyanarayana et al., 1999). While the remaining 3’ half of the genome showed 90% of nucleotide homology (Gowda et al., 2003), it contains at least 10 ORFs encoding for the two capsid proteins (CP and CPm) of 25 and 27 kDa, respectively, in addition to p6, p13, p18, p20, p23, p33, p65 and p61 proteins (Hilf et al., 1995; Ayllon et al., 2003). 

Detection and inspection methods

Mexican lime (C. aurantiifolia) is still the appropriate universal plant indicator for detecting and discriminating most of the CTV isolates; whereby, graft inoculation of the virus commonly elicits typical vein clearing and leaf cupping on the new flushes under relatively cool conditions (24-27°C day/18-21°C night). In the presence of severe CTV infections, this woody indicator can also display vein corking.

Seedlings of grapefruit, lemon, and sour orange are highly sensitive to CTV-SY isolates; while, Duncan grapefruit and Madame vinous sweet orange seedlings provide a satisfactory response to CTV-SP inducing strains (Roistacher, 1991; Lee et al., 1996).

The development of serological tools, made the mass detection of CTV isolates feasible, first through the Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) technique, and later on with the Direct Tissue Blot Immunoassay (DTBIA), which was more convenient for large-scale surveys, owing to its sensitivity and ease of use under field conditions (Cambra et al., 2000; Djelouah and D’Onghia, 2001). The MCA 13 monoclonal antibody (Mab) raised against T36 strains (Florida) commonly cross-reacts against severe CTV isolates (Permar et al., 1990). Subsequently, knowledge of the full-length CTV nucleotide sequences, transformed CTV diagnosis and constituted a starting point for the development of many genome-based procedures, including molecular hybridization (Hilf et al., 1999; Barbarossa and Savino, 2006), RT-PCR based techniques (Nolasco et al., 1993; Hung et al., 2000; Roy et al., 2005; Bertolini et al., 2008; Saponari et al., 2008), direct detection by tissue-print, and squash capture real-time RT-PCR (Cambra et al., 2015). To date, several molecular tests for CTV have also been described based on Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (RFLP) (Gilling et al., 1993), Single-strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) (Rubio et al., 1996), and Multiple molecular markers (MMM) genotyping (Hilf et al., 2005).

Interestingly, remote sensing using hyperspectral imaging techniques are becoming reliable methods for the early detection of CTV infected trees in citrus orchards. This enabled a detection strategy based on pre-visual symptoms (Gualano et al., 2009; D’Onghia et al., 2015).

At field level, the CTV pathosystem can be characterized mostly by the predominant vector species since aphids are responsible for the inter-plant dissemination of tristeza infections (Gottwald et al., 1998). Among the reasons for which A. citricidus is considered to be the most threatening vector may be the fact that it breeds exclusively on citrus species (Yokomi et al., 2010), but also its ability to transmit preferentially severe stem pitting strains in contrast to the other aphid vectors (Roberts et al., 2001). In this context, the occurrence of A. citricidus in Portugal and Spain represents a serious threat to the citrus industry across the Euro-Mediterranean area (Ilharco et al., 2005).

Disease spread within and between countries is mainly ensured by trade or movements of infected plants for planting (budwood). In the EPPO region, the cultivation of ornamental citrus in pots is becoming popular, and the import of these ornamental plants from CTV-infected areas may also present a risk.

Economic impact

Tristeza is one of the most devastating diseases of citrus worldwide (Roistacher, 1991). Massive epidemics occurred in Argentina in 1930, and Brazil in 1937, and resulted in the loss of 18 and 10 million trees, respectively. Within the Euro-Mediterranean region, repeated and severe CTV outbreaks occurred in the 1950s in Spain, where more than 40 million trees were killed (Moreno and Garnsey, 2010). In the 2000s, outbreaks also took place in Italy and caused the dieback of over 400 000 trees in Apulia and Sicily (Davino et al., 2003 and 2005). Finally, in the Mediterranean area, as the CTV sensitive sour orange is continuing to be the main rootstock used, this represents a great potential for future epidemics.

Control

Large-scale surveys are of utmost importance to detect newly established foci of CTV in an area, as early as possible. Once detected, a rapid elimination of the virus reservoirs either from individual trees or entire planted areas is the most effective practice to avoid the inoculum dispersal and to delay an epidemic (Gottwald, 2010). However, where the disease becomes endemic, and the probabilities of natural dissemination are high, the use of CTV tolerant rootstocks and mild strain cross-protection is a possible solution to extend the economic life of citrus trees without tristeza decline and stem pitting diseases (Garnsey et al., 1998). The most widely used tristeza-decline tolerant rootstocks are P. trifoliata and its hybrids Carrizo and Troyer citrange (C. sinensis x P. trifoliata), as well as Swingle citrumelo (C. paradisi x P. trifoliata) and Rangpur lime (C. limonia) (Moreno et al., 2008). Moreover, the use of rough lemon and mandarins as rootstocks instead of sour orange enabled a good production of oranges in South Africa despite the co-existence of severe CTV strains and the vector A. citricidus (Bar-Joseph et al., 2010). More recently, some North African and Near Eastern countries started an extensive replacement of sour orange rootstock, using Volkamer lemon (Citrus volkameriana) for its adaptability to the arid areas. Nevertheless, some resistance breaking isolates of CTV were found on P. trifoliata in California (Yokomi et al., 2017) and Morocco (Afechtal et al., 2018).

Tristeza-decline mild strain cross-protection programs in Southern America allowed the survival of more than 90 million protected trees during the three decades between 1950 and 1980 (Costa and Müller, 1980). Similar results were obtained in the 1990s in Australia (Broadbent et al., 1991), South Africa (van Vuuren et al., 1991), Florida and Venezuela (Lee and Rocha-Peña, 1992; Ochoa et al., 1993). However, failure of cross-protection has also been reported from Australia, California, Florida and South Africa (Roistacher et al., 2010). The most plausible explanation for this failure is that the uneven distribution of CTV in host tissue makes certain parts of the plant susceptible to further infections. Breakdown of CTV pre-immunization could also be due to an increased exposure of the hosts to severe SP or SY-CTV variants, recorded to be easily transmissible by A. citricidus, and the arrival of A. citricidus into new areas has probably hastened this phenomenon. Another interpretation is that mixed CTV infections used for the pre-immunization might include potentially severe variants that may induce severe syndromes on a particular host and under specific environmental conditions. Nevertheless, studies conducted by Roistacher and co-workers (2010) on a new approach for finding protective isolates highlighted that severe tristeza stem pitting isolates could be attenuated after aphid passage throughout Passiflora sp. and generated isolates which showed potential for cross-protection.

To date, breeding strategies to incorporate resistance genes in commercial cultivars are considered to be the best approach to obtain more durable CTV resistant plants (Moreno et al., 2008). The fact that hybrids between P. trifoliata, the only resistant species sexually compatible with citrus, and Citrus spp., can be produced makes the resistance to CTV a suitable trait to be introduced into the cultivated varieties, either by sexual hybridization or by genetic transformation after cloning of the resistance gene (Mestre et al., 1997). Research is being carried out to develop transgenic citrus varieties that are resistant to CTV. For example, transgenic Mexican lime plants inoculated with the CP gene from some severe and mild CTV strain yielded varying degrees of resistance (Domìnguez et al., 2002).

Phytosanitary risk

Tristeza is a serious threat for the citrus-growing countries in the EPPO region, where the highly susceptible sour orange rootstock is still extensively used, and where aphid vectors are widely present. Spain, Israel, and recently Italy are the most affected countries in the region. In these countries, CTV isolates belonging to both T30-like genotype associated with relatively mild infections and VT-like genotype associated with severe infections inducing stem pitting (SP) and seedling yellows (SY) have been identified. Recent molecular investigations underlined the prevalence of both genotypes in the Euro-Mediterranean area as pure and mixed infections; they also disclosed the occurrence of T36-like genotypes (Florida) inducing quick decline on sour orange rootstock in the Balkans but reported the presence of infections with unusual biological behavior in this area (Cerni et al., 2009; Djelouah et al., 2009; Yahiaoui et al., 2015).

From the epidemiological point of view, representative isolates from Italy, inducing both mild and severe seedling yellows (SY) symptoms were shown to be highly transmissible by A. gossypii (Yahiaoui et al., 2015). Thus, co-abundance of severe strains of CTV and potential aphid vectors may favour the development of new epidemics in the EPPO region. Finally, the establishment of A. citricidus in Spain and Portugal further adds to this risk (Ilharco et al., 2005).

In the absence of curative treatments against CTV, prophylactic measures are still the only effective way to avoid infection of hosts or dissemination into CTV-free areas. Therefore, the application of strict quarantine rules, such as prohibiting imports of plant material from high risk countries, can be recommended to prevent the introduction of non-indigenous and severe strains into the area (Frison and Taher, 1991). It can also be recommended that planting material imported from countries where CTV occurs should be treated against vectors; and that fruits should be free from peduncles and leaves, washed and waxed, or subjected to appropriate treatments. In addition, newly introduced cultivars should be grown in isolated areas, propagated, and regularly monitored for the presence of the virus (Garnsey et al., 1998). Large-scale specific surveys for CTV using appropriate diagnostic methods, as well as rapid eradication of eventual new foci of CTV, are of utmost importance to maintain the disease incidence at manageable levels (Gottwald, 2010). 

Regulatory actions gave encouraging results against CTV in many countries when strengthened by the consistent use of Citrus sanitation and certification programs (D’Onghia, 2009). Even in countries where CTV is already established, certification programs helped to stop the spread of severe CTV strains into newly planted areas, and to avoid damage from other graft-transmissible pathogens when tolerant rootstocks are replacing the highly susceptible sour orange rootstock (Garnsey et al., 1998).

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This datasheet was extensively revised in 2020 by Dorsaf Yahiaoui, PhD (The Technical Center of Citriculture - Tunisia). Her valuable contribution is gratefully acknowledged.

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