EPPO Global Database

Tomato yellow leaf curl virus(TYLCV0)

Distribution details in Japan

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 2014: Present, restricted distribution
First recorded in: 1996
Comments
TYLCV occurred for the first time in Japan in 1996 and has caused serious damage to commercial tomato glasshouses in western Japan. Both B and Q biotypes of Bemisia tabaci are transmitting the disease (Matsuura and Hoshino, 2008).
References
* Matsuura S, Hoshino S (2008) Comparative spatial dispersal of Tomato yellow leaf curl virus vectored by B and Q biotypes of Bemisia tabaci in tomato glasshouses. Phytoparasitica 36(1), 42-51.

* Review of Plant Pathology, 78(7), p 630 (abst. 4787).

* Shahid MS, Natsuaki KT (2014) Identification of Tomato yellow leaf curl virus naturally infecting common bean in Japan. Plant Disease 98(10), p 1447.
------- On beans (Pheaseolus vulgaris) in Komae (Tokyo prefecture, Honshu).