Tomatoes showing yellow leaf curl symptoms in the island of Grenada exhibit an infection with Tomato yellow leaf curl virus either alone or in combination with Potato yellow mosaic virus J.-M. Lett 1 *, F. Péréfarres 1,2 , M. Hoareau 1 , P. Lefeuvre 1 , A. De Bruyn 1,2 , M. Dottin 3 , P. Prior 1 , E. Wicker 1,4 and P. Umaharan 5 1 CIRAD, UMR PVBMT, Pôle de Protection des Plantes, 97410 Saint-Pi...

tomato yellow leaf curl virus (tylcv) is a major tomato virus in tropical and subtropical regions. in this study, 134 accessions of solanum lycopersicum and six accessions of solanum peruvianum were assessed for resistance to an iranian isolate of tylcv. plants were inoculated using whiteflies (bemisia tabaci) and the reaction of plants was evaluated based on either disease symptoms or viral dn...

Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) and related begomoviruses are a major threat to tomato production worldwide and, to protect against these viruses, resistance genes from different wild tomato species are introgressed. Recently, the Ty-1 resistance gene was identified, shown to code for an RNA-dependent RNA polymerase and to be allelic with Ty-3. Here we show that upon TYLCV challenging of ...

The genome of the tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV), a Bemisia tabaci-transmitted geminivirus, was cloned. All clones obtained were of one genomic molecule, analogous to DNA A of African cassava mosaic virus. Nucleotide sequence analysis of the TYLCV genome showed that it comprises 2787 nucleotides, encoding six open reading frames, two on the virion strand and four on the complementary str...

Persistent plant viruses, by altering phenotypic and physiological traits of their hosts, could modulate the host preference and fitness of hemipteran vectors. A majority of such modulations increase vector preference for virus-infected plants and improve vector fitness, ultimately favouring virus spread. Nevertheless, it remains unclear how these virus-induced modulations on vectors vary tempo...

The sweetpotato whitefly Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) is one of the most invasive pest species worldwide. Q and B biotypes are the two most devastating species within the B. tabaci complex. Bemisia tabaci can vector hundreds of plant viruses that seriously threaten crop production. Endoparasitoid, Encarsia formosa Gahan, is widely used to control whiteflies, however, little is known about the eff...