EPPO Global Database

Nepovirus lycopersici(TORSV0)

Distribution details in United Kingdom

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 2021: Present, few occurrences
From CABI Disease map 771 (2015): Absent, pest eradicated
Comments
From country itself (1992): routine surveys of pelargonium propagators; infected clones eliminated. Pest status is 'eradicated'.

From country itself (1996): pest status is 'Present, few reports'.

NPPO of the UK (2005): ToRVS has only ever been found on imported plant material in glasshouses and has always been eradicated when found. It has never been found in Guernsey, Jersey, Isle of Man and Northern Ireland.

NPPO of the UK (2021-02): present at very low levels, only detected in pelargonium (ornamentals). Nematode vectors (Xiphinema americanum sl) are absent from the UK.
References
* Defra (2018) Rapid Pest Risk Analysis (PRA) for: Tomato ringspot virus (ToRSV), 24 pp.

* Hollings M, Stone O, Dale W (1972) Tomato ringspot virus in Pelargonium in England. Plant pathology 21, 46-47.

* NPPO of the UK (2005-12, 2021-02).