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Title: Tobacco ringspot virus in Rubus

Author
item Martin, Robert
item TZANETAKIS, I - University Of Arkansas

Submitted to: Compendium of Blackberry and Raspberry Diseases and Insects
Publication Type: Book / Chapter
Publication Acceptance Date: 2/22/2010
Publication Date: N/A
Citation: N/A

Interpretive Summary:

Technical Abstract: Tobacco ringspot virus (TRSV) has a broad host range among woody and perennial plants and has been reported from blackberry but not from red or black raspberry. The virus has been detected in blackberry in the southeastern United States with a single report from blackberry in British Columbia, Canada. In the latter case, it was not clear if the virus came in on planting stock as there was no evidence of spread in the field. This virus has a number of important economic and weed hosts outside the genus Rubus. It is also likely that this is the virus from blackberry in California associated with vein chlorosis that was transmissible to Prunus species, also likely given current information that those blackberries had mixed virus infections.