First report of Potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd) in Brugmansia spp., Solanum jasminoides, Solanum muricatum and Petunia spp. in the Czech Republic

Host ranges of Potato spindle tuber viroid, Tomato chlorotic dwarf viroid, Tomato apical stunt viroid, and Columnea latent viroid in horticultural plants

“…The genus Pospiviroid belongs to the family Pospiviroidae, which includes the species Potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd). Previous reports show occurrences of pospiviroids in a variety of horticultural plants, including PSTVd in Brugmansia suaveolens, Solanum jasminoides (Verhoeven et al 2008a), Physalis peruviana (Verhoeven et al 2009), S. muricatum (Mertelik et al 2009), Cestrum (Luigi et al 2011) Dahlia spp. (Tsushima et al 2011), Petunia sp.…”

“…(Tsushima et al 2011), Petunia sp. (Mertelik et al 2009) and Streptosolen jamesonii (Verhoeven et al 2008b); Tomato chlorotic dwarf viroid (TCDVd) in Brugmansia sanguinea (Verhoeven et al 2010a), and Petunia × hybrida (Verhoeven et al 2007); Tomato apical stunt viroid (TASVd) in Cestrum (Verhoeven et al 2008c), Lycianthes rantonnetii, Streptosolen jamesonii (Verhoeven et al 2010b), and Brugmansia sp. (Olivier et al 2011); and Columnea latent viroid (CLVd) in Columnea (Hammond et al 1989), Nematanthus wettsteinii (Singh et al 1992), Brunfelsia undulata (Spieker 1996), and Gloxinia spp.…”

Infectious long non-coding RNAs

“…They range from mild to very severe, and affect either the entire plant or different organs such as leaves, fruits, flowers, roots and reserve organs [14]. Hosts are herbaceous, crop and woody plant species, as well as ornamentals [20,21]. Some of these hosts can act as reservoirs for potential future infections, imposing selective evolutionary pressure.…”

Tomato apical stunt viroid in the Netherlands: most prevalent pospiviroid in ornamentals and first outbreak in tomatoes

“…and Lycianthes rantonnetii (Luigi et al 2011), and PSTVd in Chrysanthemum sp., Cestrum sp., Dahlia sp., Petunia sp. en Solanum pseudocapsicum (Lemmetty et al 2011;Luigi et al 2011;Mertelik et al 2010;Tsushima et al 2011). Together, these findings show that there are potential sources of pospiviroid inoculum in many ornamental crops that merit attention.…”