CHARACTERIZATION OF A STRAIN OF PEPINO MOSAIC VIRUS FOUND IN SICILY

During winter 2005, an unusual virus-like yellow leaf disorder associated to interveinal leaf yellowing and marbling on fruits, was observed in some greenhouse tomato crops in Sicily, exactly in province of Ragusa. Two leaves from 250 symptomatic tomato plants were serologically tested by DAS-ELISA technique using the sera to Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV), Impatiens necrotic spot virus (INSV), Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV), Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) and Pepino mosaic virus (PepMV). Of the 250 samples tested, 215 were positive to PepMV presence. This virus was mechanically transmitted to Cucumis sativus “Cubit”, Datura metel, Nicotiana benthamiana and tomato “Rio Grande”. The host range of…

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