EPPO Global Database

Tomato apical stunt viroid(TASVD0)

Distribution details in Finland

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 2011: Absent, pest eradicated
First recorded in: 2008
Eradication in: 2011
Pest status declared by NPPO: Absent, pest eradicated (2011-06)
Comments
EPPO Reporting Service (2008/145) : detected in June 2008 on symptomless Solanum jasminoides in a single glasshouse, all infected plants were destroyed. TASVd is considered as transient.

From the NPPO (2011): eradication was declared successful.
References
* EVIRA website (last accessed in 2008-07). New tomato pathogen found in Finland (2008-06-05). http://www.evira.fi/portal/en/evira/current_issues/?id=1097
------- Found on symptomless Solanum jasminoides.

* Lemmetty A, Laamanen J, Soukainen M, Tegel J (2011) Emerging virus and viroid pathogen species identified for the first time in horticultural plants in Finland in 1997-2010. Agricultural and Food Science 20, 29-41.

* NPPO of Finland (2011-06).