EPPO Global Database

Crinivirus lactucachlorosi(LCV000)

Distribution details in Brazil

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 2021: Present, restricted distribution
First recorded in: 2018
Comments
EPPO Reporting Service (2020/091) : first observed in 2018 on Catharanthus roseus plants showing symptoms of mosaic and leaf malformation from a residential garden in Piracicaba, São Paulo.

EPPO Reporting Service (2021/185) : detected in 2 samples of Passiflora spp. (1 Passiflora auriculata and 1 P. alata) collected in 2017 from a germplasm collection in Brasília (Distrito Federal), as well as in a sample of P. edulis collected from a commercial field in Bahia state.
References
* Favara GM, Camelo-Garcia VM, Spadotti DMA, Silva JMF, Nagata T, Kitajima EW, Rezende JAM (2020) First report of Lettuce chlorosis virus infecting periwinkle in Brazil. Plant Disease 104(4), p 1263.

* Vidal AH, Felix GP, Abreu EFM, Nogueira I, Alves-Freitas DMT, Faleiro FG, Fontenele RS, Peixoto JR, Lacorte C, Rosa PCC, Nunes de Jesus O, Resende RO, Varsani A, Ribeiro SG (2021) Occurrence of lettuce chlorosis virus in Passiflora spp. in Brazil. Journal of Plant Pathology 103, 443–447.