EPPO Global Database

Plum pox virus(PPV000)

Distribution details in Argentina

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 2021: Present, few occurrences
From CABI Disease map 392 (2007): Present, few occurrences
Comments
EPPO Reporting Service (2005/019) : single outbreak in 2005 at one location.

EPPO Reporting Service (2006/051) : one orchard in San Juan province, under eradication.

EPPO Reporting Service (2007/124) : still present. Strain D.

EPPO Reporting Service (2022/052) : PPV-D detected in a symptomatic plant of Spiraea sp. in a private garden in San Rafael (Mendoza province), within a PPV-quarantine area. First record of a natural infection in a Rosaceae outside the genus Prunus.
References
* Pigliónico D, Ojeda ME, Lucero V, Farrando R, Porcel L, Picca C, Marini D (2021) Spiraea sp. new natural host of Plum pox virus (Sharka). European Journal of Plant Pathology 159(4), 959-962.

* Ortego J, dal Zotto A, Caloggero S, Raigon JM, Gasparini ML, Ojeda ME, Ducasse DA (2006) Bulletin OEPP/EPPO Bulletin 36(2), 205.
------- PPV-D.

* Zotto A dal, Balzarini M, Raigon JM, Rossini MN, Ducasse DA (2014) Plum pox virus in Japanese plum from Argentina: serological detection and molecular characterization of an isolate from cv. Red Beauty. Journal of Phytopathology 162(1), 55-60.
------- PPV-D.

* Zotto A dal, Ortego JM, Raigon JM, Caloggero S, Rossini M, Ducasse DA (2006) Plant Disease 90 (4), 523.
------- First record of PPV-D in Argentina. Pocito, San Juan, on apricots and plums.
Situation in neighbouring countries
Country State Status
Brazil Absent, intercepted only view...
Chile Present, restricted distribution view...