EPPO Global Database

Tomato yellow leaf curl virus(TYLCV0)

Distribution details in Tanzania

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 1996: Present, widespread
Comments
EPPO Reporting Service (97/060): widespread and economically important. Another probably distinct geminivirus also present in tomato (Tanzanian tomato leaf curl geminivirus, TLCV-Tan).
References
* Chiang, B.T.; Nakhla, M.K.; Maxwell, D.P.; Schoenfelder, M.; Green, S.K. (1997) A new geminivirus associated with a leaf curl disease of tomato in Tanzania. Plant Disease, 81(1), p 111.

* Nono-Womdim, R.; Swai, I.S.; Green, S.K.; Gebre-Selassie, K.; Laterrot, H.; Marchoux, G. Opeña, R.T. (1996) Tomato viruses in Tanzania: identification, distribution and disease incidence. Journal of the Southern African Society for Horticultural Sciences, 6(1), 41-44. Review of Plant Pathology, 76(2), p 178 (Abst. 1373).
Situation in neighbouring countries
Country State Status
Kenya Present, restricted distribution view...