Longidorus elongatus (de Man) was always found in soil from patches in raspberry and strawberry plantations where the plants were infected with the beet ringspot (Scottish) strain of tomato black ring virus but rarely elsewhere in the same plantations. L. elongatus hand-picked from virus-containing field soil transmitted the virus to sugar beet, turnip, and spinach seedlings, but did so less of...

In recent years, the symptoms of viral diseases such as dwarfism, mosaic, discoloration, necrosis, and circular spots have been prevalent in ornamental plants in parks, gardens, and streets in North Khorasan Province. Tomato ring spot virus (ToRSV) belongs to the Nepovirus genus of Secoviridae family. This virus is a major cause of the infection of ornamental plants in the world. In this study,...

Several different accessions of S. chilense have been used as sources of begomovirus resistance genes. Zamir et al. (1994) used LA1969 as a source of Ty-1 gene in chromosome 6 (ca. 8 cM). LA1969 was also the source of resistance against Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) for new lines developed in Cuba (Piňón et al., 2005). Scott and his team (Agrama and Scott, 2006; Scott, 2001; Scott et al...