Pest categorisation of non-EU viruses and viroids of Vitis L.

ABSTRACT: Following a request from the EU Commission, the Panel on Plant Health addressed the pest categorisation of the viruses and viroids of Vitis L. determined as being either non-EU or of undetermined standing in a previous EFSA opinion. These infectious agents belong to different genera and are heterogeneous in their biology. With the exclusion of grapevine virus 101-14.N.23.9.1/South Africa/2009 for which very limited information exists, the pest categorisation was completed for 30 viruses or viroids having acknowledged identities and available detection methods. All these viruses are efficiently transmitted by vegetative propagation techniques, with plants for planting representing the major pathway for long-distance dispersal and thus considered as the major pathway for potential ent

SUBMITTER: EFSA Panel on Plant Health (EFSA PLH Panel) 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7009087 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature