Archives of Virology (2016) 161, 993-998

J.M. French, N.P. Goldberg, J.J. Randall and S.F. Hanson (2016)
New Mexico and the southwestern US are affected by a unique population of Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) strains
Archives of Virology 161 (4), 993-998
Abstract: Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) is an important pathogen of many ornamental, greenhouse and agronomic crops worldwide. TSWV also causes sporadic problems in a number of crops in New Mexico (NM). Nucleocapsid gene sequences obtained from six different crop species across the state over four different years were used to characterize the NM TSWV population. This analysis shows that NM is affected by a unique TSWV population that is part of larger independent population present in the southwestern US. This population likely arose due to geographic isolation and is related to other TSWV populations from the US, Spain, and Italy.
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Database assignments for author(s): Stephen F. Hanson, Jennifer J. Randall

Research topic(s) for pests/diseases/weeds:
molecular biology - genes

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Pest and/or beneficial records:

Beneficial	Pest/Disease/Weed	Crop/Product	Country	Quarant.
	Orthotospovirus tomatomaculae		U.S.A. (SW)