EPPO Global Database

Potato spindle tuber viroid(PSTVD0)

Distribution details in Netherlands

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 2023: Present, few occurrences
Pest status declared by NPPO: Present: in ornamentals (Solanum spp.) (2023-07)
From CABI Disease map 729 (2012): Present, few occurrences
Comments
EPPO Reporting Service (2003/014) : in 2001, isolated detection in tomato sample, origin unknown. Not found since.

EPPO Reporting Service (2006/142) : found in one lot of imported ornamental pot plants of Solanum jasminoides, which was destroyed. Import of solanaceous plants from outside the EU is prohibited, and a survey confirmed that no other such prohibited plants were being imported.

EPPO Reporting Service (2006/229) : subsequently found again on Solanum jasminoides, and in several places on Brugmansia spp. Under eradication.

EPPO Reporting Service (2013/148) : incidental finding in a glasshouse tomato crop, under eradication.

EPPO Reporting Service (2013/194) : 1 outbreak detected in August 2013 in a dahlia corm prodution field in the province of South Holland, under eradication.

EPPO Reporting Service (2014/088) : 1 incursion detected in March 2014 in potato breeding material (1 company), under eradication.

EPPO Reporting Service (2014/131) : an update of the above incursion, eradication continues.

EPPO Reporting Service (2014/207) : eradication of the 2 outbreaks found in 2013 in tomatoes and Dahlia.

EPPO Reporting Service (2016/083) : eradication of the outbreak previously found in potato breeding material. Detected in 2016 at 4 locations in Capsicum annuum plants for planting (seedless cultivars). Under eradication.

EPPO Reporting Service (2016/176) : detected in 2016 in potato breeding material (4 plants belonging to 1 genotype). Under eradication.

EPPO Reporting Service (2017/200) : eradicated from potato breeding material and capsicum seedless cultivars. Intercepted on Solanum sisymbriifolium seeds from Asia.
References
* Anonymous (2001) Annual Report 2001, Diagnostic Centre, Plant Protection Service, 135 pp.

* IPPC website. Official Pest Reports. https://www.ippc.int/index.php
- Potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd) on Solanum jasminoïdes (2007-05-11).
- Potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd) on Solanum jasminoides and Brugmansia spp. ornamental plants (2007-05-11).

* NPPO of the Netherlands (2006-07, 2006-11, 2013-05, 2013-07, 2013-09, 2014-06, 2014-10, 2016-04, 2016-09, 2017-06, 2018-04, 2022-07, 2023-07).

* NPPO of the Netherlands - Pest status of harmful organisms in the Netherlands (Fytosignalering covering 2007, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015).
------- Pest status based on long term annual surveys on PSTVd host plants which include potato and tomato cultivation (226 survey observations in 2012 which did not detect the viroid, 246 survey observations in 2013).

* Verhoeven JTJ, Voogd JGB, Strik N, Roenhorst JW (2016) First report of Potato spindle tuber viroid in vegetatively propagated plants of Capsicum annuum in The Netherlands. New Disease Reports 34, 12. http://dx.doi.org/10.5197/j.2044-0588.2016.034.012

* Verhoeven JTJ, Vullings GWM, Voogd JGB, Janssen FJA, Roenhorst JW (2018) Potato germplasm poses the highest risk of introducing Potato spindle tuber viroid in potatoes in the Netherlands: analysis and evaluation of an outbreak in potato breeding. European Journal of Plant Pathology 151(12), 201-211.

* Verhoeven JTJ, Westenberg M, van Ede EPM, Visser K, Roenhorst JW (2016) Identification and eradication of Potato spindle tuber viroid in dahlia in the Netherlands. European Journal of Plant Pathology 146(2), 443–447.
Situation in neighbouring countries
Country State Status
Belgium Present, few occurrences view...
Germany Present, few occurrences view...