Tomato brown rugose fruit virus

Publication Date

Fri, 06 May 2022, 15:44

Last Updated

May 6, 2022, 3:44 p.m.

Report Number

GBR-40/1

Country

United Kingdom

Pest Id

Tomato brown rugose fruit virus - (TOBRFV)

Report Status

Final

Hosts

Solanum lycopersicum (tomato) plants

Pest Status (ISPM 8 - 2021)

• Present: not widely distributed and not under official control

Geographical Distribution

An outbreak at one tomato production site in the West Midlands.

Summary

A second outbreak of ToBRFV at a tomato production site in the UK. This outbreak is likely the result of a reinfection at the site from a previous outbreak.

Danger

ToBRFV is a damaging virus of tomato and pepper. Symptoms of the virus include mosaic patterning and deformation of leaves, necrosis of pedicels, calyces, petioles and flowers, and discoloration, deformation and necrosis of fruit. In severe cases, ToBRFV may lead to the wilting and yellowing, and eventually the death, of the plant.

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Commodity keywords

Live plants incl. their roots, cuttings and slips; mushroom spawn (excl. bulbs, tubers, tuberous roots, corms, crowns and rhizomes, and chicory plants and roots)