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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Viroid Monitoring |
| Participants | Michael Wassenegger (Leader) Nora Schwind |
| Period | 2006 and after |
| Description | In Europe, United States and Australia, PSTVd is classified as a quarantine pathogen. Infection of potato and tomato plants can lead to massive crop losses. Since late 2006, an epidemic outbreak of PSTVd in ornamental plants Solanum jasminoides, S. rantonnetii and Brugmansia spp. has been reported in at least the Netherlands, Germany and Italy. In contrast to tomato and potato, these ornamental plants do not develop visible disease symptoms with PSTVd infection. Unfortunately, infected plants were already widely distributed throughout Europe before viroid detection. Since transmission to crop plants is always a potential threat and PSTVd-resistant tomato and potato plants are not available, the production and distribution of ornamental PSTVd host plant species have been restricted. The restriction has severe economic impact on European plant producers, arguing for the availability of PSTVd-resistant crop plants. |
| Viruses | Potato spindle tuber viroid Chrysanthemum stunt viroid Citrus exocortis viroid Columnea latent viroid Iresine viroid 1 Mexican papita viroid Tomato apical stunt viroid Tomato chlorotic dwarf viroid Tomato planta macho viroid |
| Plants | Solanum laxum Lycianthes rantonnei Brugmansia |
| Crops | Ornamental plants |
| Fundings | in house funding |