Tombusvirus moroccoense
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Datura stramonium infected with the lettuce necrotic stunt virus (click on image to enlarge it)
Author(s): William M. Wintermantel and Laura L. Hladky
Source: Phytopathology (2013) 103 (5) p. 505
Author(s): William M. Wintermantel and Laura L. Hladky
Source: Phytopathology (2013) 103 (5) p. 505
Tombusvirus moroccoense
Assigned viruses:
• Moroccan pepper virus (MPV)
• lettuce necrotic stunt virus (LNSV)
The viruses assigned to Tombusvirus moroccoense cause diseases on several crops. The symptoms include leaf deformation, stunting, dieback, leaf mottling and malformation, leaf and flower abscission, and lethal systemic necrosis.
The Moroccan pepper virus was first described from pepper in Morocco. The lettuce necrotic stunt virus was initially described from south-western North America, causing the lettuce dieback disease, characterized by stunting and death of lettuce plants.
