“…In the latest 20 years, TSWV has become widespread throughout most of the states in the USA (Groves et al ., ; Holcomb et al ., ; Díaz‐Pérez & Pappu, ; Holcomb & Valverde, ; Momol et al ., ; Adkins et al ., ; Whitfield et al ., ; Mullis et al ., ; Yang et al ., ; Adkins & Baker, ; Mullis et al ., ; Nischwitz et al ., ,b; Baker et al ., ; Baker et al ., ; Barkley et al ., ; Crosslin et al ., ) causing significant economic losses (Pearce, ). More recently, TSWV was isolated from Stevia rebaudiana and tomatoes with the Sw‐5 orthotospovirus‐resistance gene in Carolina (Koehler et al ., ; Batuman et al ., ). TSWV was found in a commercial chrysanthemum field of Mexico infesting several weeds including Taraxacum officinale , Bidens sp., Reseda luteola , Mirabilis jalapa being transmitted by F. occidentalis (Martinez et al ., ).…”