Alphanucleorhabdovirus melongenae(EMDV00)
Distribution details in United Kingdom
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated
2023: Transient
First detected in a symptomatic sample of Pittosporum tobira collected from a nursery in West Sussex in August 2020. In February 2022, the virus was detected again in 2 P. tobira symptomatic plants from a nursery in Gloucestershire. Pittosporum cryptic virus 1 was also detected in all infected samples. In these 2 cases, P. tobira plants have been destroyed.
* Frew L, Hogan C, Andrews K, Fowkes A, Skelton A, Betster G, Dixon M, Conyers C, Adams I, McGreig S, Fox A (2023) First report of eggplant mottled dwarf virus in Pittosporum tobria [sic] in the United Kingdom. Journal of Plant Pathology (early view) https://doi.org/10.1007/s42161-023-01483-1
------- First record on Pittosporum tobira, infected plants have been destroyed.
------- First record on Pittosporum tobira, infected plants have been destroyed.