“…It was reported for the first time in India from tomato and further its infectivity study demonstrated that both DNA-A and DNA-B are essential for symptom development [10]. ToLCNDV is known to infect tomato in India since nearly two decades, but during the last one decade, its host range has increased enormously to various crops such as potato [21], papaya [12], eggplant [11] okra [23] and several cucurbitaceous vegetables like bottle gourd, bitter gourd, cucumber, ivy gourd, long melon, pumpkin, ridge gourd and watermelon in northern India and chayote in north-western India [7,16,17,20]. In Pakistan, besides tomato, ToLCNDV was also reported on crops like chilli [5], bitter gourd [18], and on weed Eclipta prostrata [3].…”