EPPO Global Database

Polerovirus PEWBVYV(PEWBVY)

Vectors

Important note on vectors:
Information on vectors and their associated pathogens is a new feature of the database (April 2023). Data will gradually be entered by the EPPO Secretariat and will focus on regulated (quarantine) pests.
Organism Type
Bemisia tabaci (BEMITA) Known vector
* Ghosh S, Kanakala S, Lebedev G, Kontsedalov S, Silverman D, Alon T, Mor N, Sela N, Luria N, Dombrovsky A, Mawassi M (2019) Transmission of a new polerovirus infecting pepper by the whitefly Bemisia tabaci. Journal of virology 93(15), e00488-19. https://doi.org/10.1128/jvi.00488-19

* Ghosh S, Bello VH, Ghanim M (2021) Transmission parameters of pepper whitefly-borne vein yellows virus (PeWBVYV) by Bemisia tabaci and identification of an insect protein with a putative role in polerovirus transmission. Virology 560, 54-65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.virol.2021.05.005
-------  transmitted by MEAM1 but not MED species of the whitefly Bemisia tabaci.