EPPO Global Database

Pospiviroid fusituberis(PSTVD0)

Distribution details in Japan (Honshu)

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 2010: Present, few occurrences
Comments
EPPO Reporting Service (2012/061) : detected in 2 samples which had been collected in 2008 from tomato plants cultivated in the Fukushima prefecture.
References
* Matsushita Y, Usugi T, Tsuda S (2010) Development of a multiplex RT-PCR detection and identification system for Potato spindle tuber viroid and Tomato chlorotic dwarf viroid. European Journal of Plant Pathology 128(2), 165-170.

* Tsushima T, Nishimura M, Toda T, Furuya H, Fuji SI (2019) Molecular characterization and eradication of new potato spindle tuber viroid isolates from dahlia plants in Japan. European Journal of Plant Pathology 154(4), 1091-1102.
------- Outbreak on dahlia in Akita prefecture eradicated.