EPPO Global Database

Tomato yellow leaf curl virus(TYLCV0)

Distribution details in Trinidad and Tobago

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 2017: Present, no details
First recorded in: 1989
Comments
EPPO Reporting Service (1999/158) : symptoms since 1989. Now widespread and a serious threat to the tomato industry. One of two geminiviruses found in a number of crops and weeds. The other is related to potato mosaic begomovirus.
References
* Chinnaraja C, Ramkissoon A, Ramsubhag A, Jayaraj J (2016) First report of Tomato yellow leaf curl virus infecting tomatoes in Trinidad. Plant Disease 100(9), p 1958.
------- On Solanum lycopersicum.

* Chinnaraja C, Ramsubhag A, Jayaraj J (2017) Identification of Tomato yellow leaf curl virus infecting cowpea in Trinidad. Plant Disease 101(10), p 1830.
-------- On Vigna unguiculata.

* Umaharan, P.; Padidam, M.; Phelps, R.H.; Beachy, R.N.; Fauquet, C. M. (1998) Distribution and diversity of geminiviruses in Trinidad and Tobago. Phytopathology, 88(12), 1262-1268.