Florida is a leading producer of fresh-market tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum) in the US, $262 million industry for state. In October 2019, eight tomato plants showing chlorotic, cupped leaves and stunted foliage (Fig. 1) were collected from c. 1.6 ha community garden Alachua County, Florida. The symptoms observed characteristic Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV). Samples tested by PCR using ...

Begomoviruses are exclusively transmitted by whiteflies in a persistent circulative manner and cause considerable economic losses to crop production worldwide. Previous studies have shown that begomoviruses accumulate in vesicle-like structures in whitefly midgut cells and that clathrin-mediated endocytosis is responsible for their internalization. However, the process by which begomoviruses ar...

Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus Disease incited by Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) causes huge losses in tomato production worldwide and is caused by different related begomovirus species. Breeding for TYLCV resistance has been based on the introgression of multiple resistance genes originating from several wild tomato species. In this study we have fine-mapped the widely used Solanum chile...

tomato yellow leaf curl virus (tylcv) is considered as one of the most important tomato viruses in tropical and subtropical areas. in order to identify and investigate the presence of this virus in fields , greenhouses and cultivated tomato plants in tuneles of khorasan razavi, southern and northern khorasan provinces, during 2009 and 2011, plants which have been showed the symptoms were collec...

The plant-infecting geminiviruses deliver their genome and viral proteins into the host cell nucleus. Members of the family Geminiviridae possess either a bipartite genome composed of two approximately 2.6 kb DNAs or a monopartite genome of approximately 3.0 kb DNA. The bipartite genome of Bean dwarf mosaic virus (BDMV) encodes several karyophilic proteins, among them the capsid protein (CP) an...

Herbivory defense systems in plants are largely regulated by jasmonate-(JA) and salicylate-(SA) signaling pathways. Such defense mechanisms may impact insect feeding dynamic, may also affect the transmission-acquisition relationship among virus, plants and vectoring insects. In the context of the tomato - whitefly - Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus (TYLCV) biological model, we tested the impact of...

In the eyes of a tomato grower, resistance to TYLCV, as opposed to susceptibility, is defined by the absence of, or mild, disease symptoms, and acceptable yield. In resistant cultivars and breeding lines, the amount of virus that can be detected with molecular tools is usually smaller than that in the susceptible plants, especially during the first 4 weeks after inoculation. Genetic studies hav...

Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) production in tropical and subtropical regions of the world is limited by the endemic presence of Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV). Breeding programmes aimed at producing TYLCV-resistant tomato cultivars have utilized resistance sources derived from wild tomato species. So far, all reported breeding programmes have introgressed TYLCV resistance from a single w...

BACKGROUND The whitefly, Bemisia tabaci (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae), is one of the most widely distributed agricultural pests. In recent years, B. tabaci Q has invaded China, and Q has displaced B in many areas now. In a number of regions of the world, invasion by B and/or Q has been followed by outbreaks of tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV). Our previous study showed TYLCV directly and indire...