Strawberry mild yellow-edge virus (SMYEV) is a
pathogen
In biology, a pathogen (, "suffering", "passion" and , "producer of"), in the oldest and broadest sense, is any organism or agent that can produce disease. A pathogen may also be referred to as an infectious agent, or simply a Germ theory of d ...
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plant virus
Plant viruses are viruses that have the potential to affect plants. Like all other viruses, plant viruses are obligate intracellular parasites that do not have the molecular machinery to replicate without a host. Plant viruses can be pathoge ...
.
Transmission
The virus is transmitted by aphid species in the genus ''
Chaetosiphon'', mainly ''
C. fragaefolii'', ''
C. thomasi'', ''C. jacobi''. The virus cannot be transmitted through seeds, contact, grafting, or pollen.
It is also a vector for the strawberry yellow edge-associated potexvirus.
Host and symptoms
Symptoms of this virus mainly include cupped leaflets and reduced in
Fragaria
''Fragaria'' () is a genus of flowering plants in the rose family, Rosaceae, commonly known as strawberries for their edible fruits. There are more than 20 described species and many Hybrid plant, hybrids and cultivars. The most common strawberr ...
species. In some plants such as
Fragaria chiloensis
''Fragaria chiloensis'', the beach strawberry, Chilean strawberry, or coastal strawberry, is one of two species of wild strawberry that were hybridized to create the modern garden strawberry (''F. × ananassa''). It is native to the Pacific Oce ...
and
Fragaria × ananassa infection appears symptomless.
Susceptible hosts
The susceptible host species are mainly in the families
Rosaceae
Rosaceae (), the rose family, is a family of flowering plants that includes 4,828 known species in 91 genera.
The name is derived from the type genus '' Rosa''. The family includes herbs, shrubs, and trees. Most species are deciduous, but som ...
and
Rutaceae
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in Bo ...
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Citrus aurantium
The bitter orange, sour orange, Seville orange, bigarade orange, or marmalade orange is the hybrid citrus tree species ''Citrus'' × ''aurantium'', and its fruit. It is native to Southeast Asia and has been spread by humans to many parts of th ...
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* '' Duchesnea indica''
* ''Fragaria chiloensis
''Fragaria chiloensis'', the beach strawberry, Chilean strawberry, or coastal strawberry, is one of two species of wild strawberry that were hybridized to create the modern garden strawberry (''F. × ananassa''). It is native to the Pacific Oce ...
''
* ''Fragaria vesca
''Fragaria vesca'', commonly called the wild strawberry, woodland strawberry, Alpine strawberry, Carpathian strawberry or European strawberry, is a Perennial plant, perennial herbaceous plant in the Rosaceae, rose family that grows naturally thro ...
''
* '' Fragaria virginiana''
* '' Fragaria × ananassa''
* ''Sanguisorba minor
''Sanguisorba minor'', the salad burnet, garden burnet, small burnet, burnet (also used for ''Sanguisorba'' generally), :wiktionary:pimprenelle, pimpernelle, Toper's plant, and burnet-bloodwort, is an edible perennial plant, perennial herbaceou ...
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See also
* List of strawberry diseases
References
External links
ICTVdB - The Universal Virus Database: Strawberry mild yellow-edge virus
Viral strawberry diseases
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