EPPO Global Database

Potato spindle tuber viroid(PSTVD0)

Distribution details in United Kingdom (Scotland)

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 1996: Absent, intercepted only
Comments
From country itself (1992): detected in potato germplasm quarantine testing (in the Commonwealth Potato Collection held in Scotland) in the 1970s; eliminated.
References
* Cammack RH, Harris PS (1973) Bulletin OEPP/EPPO Bulletin 3 (3), 117-118.
------- The viroid 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.

* NPPO of the UK (1992).