EPPO Global Database

Potato spindle tuber viroid(PSTVD0)

Distribution details in New Zealand

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 2019: Absent, pest no longer present
First recorded in: 2001
Pest status declared by NPPO: Absent, formerly present (2019-10)
From CABI Disease map 729 (2012): Present, few occurrences
Comments
EPPO Reporting Service (2001/061) : found in 2000/2001 on tomato crops at three sites in North Island and one in South Island. Probably entered on infected seeds.

EPPO Reporting Service (2003/041) : further surveys in 2002. Found only in one tomato glasshouse (already infested in 2000). Also in capsicum at Warkworth (north of Auckland).

EPPO Reporting Service (2019/240) : PSTVd has been detected on a few occasions but in all cases eradication measures have been taken. As no further detections of PSTVd have made since 2009, it is considered to be absent in New Zealand.
References
* Anonymous (2009) Pest watch: 2009-08-21 / 2009-10-02. Biosecurity Magazine no. 95, MAFF New Zealand, p 31.
------- On Physalis peruviana (Mid-Canterbury) and Nicotiana tabacum (Auckland).

* Biosecurity New Zealand (2019-10).

* Elliott DR, Alexander BJR, Smales TE, Tang Z, Clover GRG (2001) Plant Disease 85 (9), 1027.
------- Auckland and Nelson.

* Lebas BSM, Elliott DR, Ochoa-Corona FM, Tang J, Alexander B.JR (2003) Delimiting survey for Potato spindle tuber viroid on tomato and capsicum in New Zealand greenhouses (abst. 1943). Abstracts of papers presented at the 8th International Congress of Plant Pathology, Christchurch, New Zealand (2003-02-02/07).

* ProMED posting of 2001-03-14. Potato spindle tuber viroid – New Zealand. http://www.promedmail.org

* Stephenson B (2001) Biosecurity No. 27, 15.
------- Auckland and Nelson.

* Veerakone S, Tang JZ, Wart LI Liefting LW, Perez-Egusquiza Z, Lebas BSM, Delmiglio C, Fletcher JD, Guy PF (2015) A review of the plant virus, viroid, liberibacter and phytoplasma records for New Zealand. Australasian Plant Pathology 44, 463–514.

* Ward LI, Tang J, Veerakone S, Quinn BD, Harper SJ, Delmiglio C, Clover GRG (2010) First report of Potato spindle tuber viroid in Cape gooseberry (Physalis peruviana) in New Zealand. Plant Disease 94 (4), 479.
------- Christchurch.