First outbreak of Potato spindle tuber viroid on seedless Capsicum annuum plants for planting, without specific symptoms, in four professional greenhouses.

Publication Date

Tue, 07 Feb 2017, 12:01

Last Updated

Feb. 7, 2017, 1:08 p.m.

Report Number

NLD-51/2

Country

Netherlands, Kingdom of the

Pest Id

Potato spindle tuber viroid - (PSTVD0)

Report Status

Final

Hosts

Capsicum annuum

Pest Status (old values from ISPM 8 -1998 )

• Transient: actionable, under eradication

Pest Status (ISPM 8 - 2021)

• Present: transient

Summary

This report concerns the first official finding of PSTVd in the Netherlands on plants for planting of seedless Capsicum annuum in four professional greenhouses, officially confirmed on 30 March 2016. PSTVd has only been demonstrated in vegetatively propagated seedless Capsicum plants, which is not produced from seed. All findings are linked to the same propagation material. The suspicion was first reported by the breeding company of these selections to the NPPO of the Netherlands. The propagation (stock) material of C. annuum plants for making own mother plants was imported by a Dutch nursery from Israel in 2014 and 2015. Plants for planting of these selections were distributed to the affected companies in the Netherlands and some other EU Member States, who have been duly informed. In the Netherlands the same PSTVd sequence was found in all samples (15) taken at the four greenhouses. This sequence is very similar to earlier interceptions of PSTVd on Solanum jasminoides.

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This report concerns the first official finding of PSTVd in the Netherlands on plants for planting of seedless Capsicum annuum in four professional greenhouses, officially confirmed on 30 March 2016. PSTVd has only been demonstrated in vegetatively propag

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