March 14, 2006
From: ProMED-mail<promed@promedmail.org>
Source: European Plant Protection Organization (EPPO), Reporting Service, 2005/025 [edited] <http://www.eppo.org/PUBLICATIONS/reporting/reporting_service.htm>

New data on quarantine pests and pests of the European Plant Protection Organization Alert List

By browsing through the literature, the EPPO Secretariat has extracted the following new data concerning quarantine pests and pests included on the EPPO Alert List. The situation of the pest concerned is indicated in bold [in the original], using the terms of ISPM no. 8.

Detailed records:

Tomato spotted wilt virus on pepper
In Turkey, tomato spotted wilt tospovirus (EPPO A2 list) was reported on _Capsicum annuum_ in the Samsun province, Black Sea region. The virus was also detected by ELISA in several weed species: _Amaranthus retroflexus_, _Datura stramonium_, _Hibiscus trionum_, and _Taraxacum officinale_ (Arli-Sokmen et al., 2005).

New host plants
In the USA, the occurrence of impatiens necrotic spot tospovirus (INSV - EPPO A2 list) was reported on glasshouse-grown _Capsicum annuum_ (Naidu et al., 2005).

In Spain, both tomato yellow leaf curl Sardinia begomovirus (TYLCSV) and tomato yellow leaf curl begomovirus (TYLCV) were reported on tomato crops. TYLCV was also reported in _Phaseolus vulgaris_ and _Capsicum annuum_ crops. During summer 2004, symptoms of yellowing, crumpling and necrosis of new leaves were observed sporadically in young, field-grown tobacco plants (_Nicotiana tabacum_) in the Badajoz province (Extremadura). The presence of TYLCV was detected in mixed infections with potato Y potyvirus (PVY) in the tested samples (Font et al., 2005).

Sources:

Adkins S, Baker CA (2005) Tomato spotted wilt tospovirus identified in desert rose in Florida. Plant Disease 89(5), p 526. Agosteo GE, Macri C, Cacciola SO (2005)

Characterization of _Colletotrichum acutatum_ isolates causing anthracnose of strawberry in Calabria. Journal of Plant Pathology 87(4, special issue), p 287.

Arli-Sokmen, Mennan H, Sevik MA, Ecevit O (2005) Occurrence of viruses in field-grown pepper crops and some of their reservoir weed hosts in Samsun, Turkey. Phytoparasitica 33(4), 347-358.

Font MI, Cordoba C, Garcia A, Santiago R, Jorda C (2005). 1st report of tobacco as a natural host of tomato yellow leaf curl virus in Spain. Plant Disease 89(8), p. 910.NPPO of Italy, 2005-12.

Naidu RA, Deom CM, Sherwood JL (2005) Expansion of the host range of Impatiens necrotic spot virus to peppers. Plant Health Progress, July 2005.

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[One phytobacterium, one fungus and 3 viral pathogens of crop plants are described in this report. Fire blight is a serious disease of pear and apple. It is native to North America, was introduced to Europe in the 1950s, and has spread throughout many countries in Europe and the Middle East. It is relatively newly introduced to Italy (1999), hence the concern in the 1st report.

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[see also in the archive:
2005
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Quarantine pests, new data - EPPO (03): Lithuania 2004 20051104.3226
Quarantine pests, new data - EPPO (02): Spain 2004 20050714.2014
Quarantine pests, new data - EPPO 20050523.1418
2004
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Quarantine pests, new data - EPPO (05) 20041106.3007
Quarantine pests, new data - EPPO (04) 20040913.2548
Quarantine pests, new data - EPPO (03) 20040904.2473
Quarantine pests, new data - EPPO 20040831.2423
Quarantine pests, new data - EPPO 20040107.0072
2003
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Quarantine pests - New Data 20030713.1728
1999
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Plant quarantine pests, new data 19990128.0131]