EPPO Global Database

Nepovirus nicotianae(TRSV00)

Distribution details in United Kingdom

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 2024: Present, few occurrences
From CABI Disease map 144 (1984): Present, no details
From NPPO: Present, few occurrences
Comments
Previously given as "Absent; found, but not established". In 1996, country itself specifies status C, i.e. "Present, few reports".

Schoen et al. (2024): intercepted in Pelargonium zonale plants from the UK in the Netherlands in 2019.
References
* Brunt, A. A. (1975) Acta Horticulturae No.47, pp. 45-50.
------- Found occasionally in imported rhizomatous and bulbous irises.

* Cooper, J. I.; Edwards, M. L. (1985) Mitteilungen, Biologischen Bundesanstalt fur Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Berlin-Dahlem No. 228, pp. 89-91.
------- In amenity grasses.

* Defra (2018) Rapid Pest Risk Analysis (PRA) for: Tobacco ringspot virus (TRSV). 23 pp. Available at https://pra.eppo.int/pra/6e693e88-1a57-4e43-9bea-823b143c8a8c.
-------there is no evidence that TRSV has ever been eradicated from Pelargonium stocks, especially since no surveys have been carried out since 2003. The nematode vectors do not occur in the UK.

* Schoen R, de Krom CE, Westenberg M, Botermans M, van Bruggen AS, Meekes ET, Didden L, Hooftman M, Roenhorst JW (2024) Findings of tobacco ringspot virus in ornamentals in the Netherlands from 1997 to 2020 indicate a need for evaluation of its European Union quarantine status. European Journal of Plant Pathology (early view). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10658-024-02957-3

* Stone, O. M.; Hollings, M.; Barton, R. J. (1981) 1979 Annual Report of the Glasshouse Crops Research Institute, pp. 150-151. Glasshouse Crops Research Institute, Littlehampton, UK.
------- First record on Pelargonium in the UK.