Eradication of tomato chlorosis virus from the United Kingdom
In the United-Kingdom, tomato chlorosis virus (Crinivirus, ToCV - EPPO A2 List) was first detected in 2018 in a tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) production glasshouse in Kent (EPPO RS 2018/129). Eradication measures were applied in the infected glasshouse and in another glasshouse which was suspected to be infected. They included prevention of movement of staff and equipment to other glasshouses with ToCV hosts, biological control against whitefly vectors, destruction of all plant material at the end of the growing season, removal of host weeds around the glasshouses. Further testing on the subsequent host plants after replanting were negative for tomato chlorosis virus and it is therefore declared eradicated.
The pest status of Tomato chlorosis virus in the United-Kingdom is officially declared as: Absent, pest eradicated.
Sources
NPPO of the United Kingdom (2020-06).