EPPO Global Database

Watermelon chlorotic stunt virus(WMCSV0)

Distribution details in Sudan

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 2018: Present, restricted distribution
First recorded in: 1993
From CABI Disease map 955 (2005): Present, no details
Comments
EPPO Reporting Service (2000/159) : severe outbreaks in 1993/1996 in centre and east.
References
* Anon. (2003) Gemini Detective - Watermelon chlorotic stunt virus (WmCSV). University of Arizona, Tucson, USA.

* Kheyr-Pour A, Bananej K, Dafalla GA, Caciagli P, Noris E, Ahoonmanesh A, Lecoq H, Gronenborn B (2000) Watermelon chlorotic stunt virus from the Sudan and Iran: Sequence comparisons and identification of a whitefly-transmission determinant. Phytopathology 90(6), 629-635.

* Mohammed HS, Zicca S, Manglli A, Mohamed ME, El Siddig MA, Tomassoli L, El Hussein AA (2014) Identification and phylogenetic analysis of common pumpkin viruses in Sudan. Journal of Plant Pathology 96(1), 77-94.
------- On Cucurbita maxima.

* Mohammed HS, Siddig MAE, El-Hussein AA, Navas-Castillo J, Fiallo-Olivé E (2017) First report of Datura innoxia as a natural host of Watermelon chlorotic stunt virus in Sudan. Plant Disease 101 (7), 1334. https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-02-17-0156-PDN
------- On Datura inoxia.