Population shifts in begomoviruses associated with tomato yellow leaf curl disease in western Mediterranean countries.

ABSTRACT: Tomato yellow leaf curl disease (TYLCD) was reported in western Mediterranean basin since the late 1980s. Based on intensive plant samplings performed in Spain, Italy and Morocco at different periods between the 1990s and 2014, several begomoviruses (family Geminiviridae) were identified as the cause of TYLCD. They comprise the native Begomovirus solanumflavusardiniaense (Tomato yellow leaf curl Sardinia virus, TYLCSAV), two strains of Begomovirus coheni (Tomato yellow leaf curl virus, TYLCV) introduced from the Middle East, and several types of TYLCV/TYLCSaV recombinants including the invasive recombinant TYLCV-IS76 in which the genome fragment inherited from TYLCSaV was unusually short. Although parental and recombinant TYLCD-associated begomoviruses were present in

SUBMITTER: Granier M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12363689 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature