EPPO Global Database

Tobamovirus fructirugosum(TOBRFV)

Distribution details in United Kingdom

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 2024: Present, few occurrences
First recorded in: 2019
Eradication in: 2021
Pest status declared by NPPO: Present: not widely distributed and under official control (2024-12)
From CABI Disease map 1252 (2022): Present, few occurrences
Comments
EPPO Reporting Service (2019/163) : first found in July 2019 in a tomato production site in Kent. Under eradication.

EPPO Reporting Service (2020/078) : new findings in March 2020 in Worcestershire. Under eradication.

EPPO Reporting Service (2020/123) : outbreak in Kent eradicated. 3 new outbreaks detected. Under eradication.

EPPO Reporting Service (2022/018) : pest eradicated.

NPPO (2022-05 via the IPPC): found again in a tomato production site in the West Middlands (England).

NPPO (2024): 4 active outbreaks in England. Under official control.
References
* IPPC website. Official Pest Reports - United Kingdom (GBR-40/1 of 2022-05-06) Tomato brown rugose fruit virus. https://www.ippc.int/fr/countries/united-kingdom/pestreports/2022/05/tomato-brown-rugose-fruit-virus/
------- Found again in a tomato production site in the West Middlands.

* NPPO of the United Kingdom (2019-07, 2020-04, 2020-06, 2021-12, 2022-05, 2024-12).

* Skelton A, Buxton-Kirk A, Ward R, Harju V, Frew L, Fowkes A, Long M, Negus A, Forde S, Adams IP, Pufal H, McGreig S, Weekes R, Fox A (2019) First report of Tomato brown rugose fruit virus in tomato in the United Kingdom. New Disease Reports 40, 12. [http://dx.doi.org/10.5197/j.2044-0588.2019.040.012]