EPPO Global Database

Potato spindle tuber viroid(PSTVD0)

Distribution details in United Kingdom

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 2018: Transient
First recorded in: 1970s
Pest status declared by NPPO: Transient, actionable, under eradication (2011-08)
From CABI Disease map 729 (2012): Present, few occurrences
Comments
From country itself (1992): detected in potato germplasm quarantine testing (in the Commonwealth Potato Collection held in Scotland) in the 1970s; eliminated.

EPPO Reporting Service (2003/100) : found in a tomato production house in SE England. Under eradication.

During official surveys carried out in 2009 and 2010, PSTVd was not detected.

EPPO Reporting Service (2011/202) : an outbreak was confirmed in a commercial glasshouse producing tomato fruits in East Yorkshire, north of England. Under eradication.

EPPO Reporting Service (2018/212) : detected in tissue cultures of dahlia. All infected dahlia lines have been destroyed.
References
* Cammack, R. H.; Harris, P. S. (1973) Bulletin OEPP/EPPO Bulletin 3 (3), 117-118.
------- The viroid is unknown in commercial potato stocks in the UK, but isolates of the viroid have been identified in 13 lines from the collection at the Scottish Plant Breeding Station.

* IPPC website. Official Pest Reports – United Kingdom. Potato spindle tuber viroid (2011-08-17). https://www.ippc.int/index.php

* Monger WA, (2018) Dahlia latent viroid and Potato spindle tuber viroid in dahlia plants in the UK. New Disease Reports 38, 8. http://dx.doi.org/10.5197/j.2044-0588.2018.038.008

* NPPO of United Kingdom (1992, 2003-07, 2010-02, 2011-02, 2011-08).

* Singh, M. N.; Mukherjee, K.; Khurana, S. M. P.; Jai Gopal; Querci, M. (2000) In: Potato global research & development. Proceedings of the Global Conference on Potato, New Delhi, India, 6-11 December, 1999: Volume 1 pp. 491-494.