Strawberry mild yellow-edge virus (SMYEV) is a
pathogen
In biology, a pathogen ( el, πάθος, "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 ger ...
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plant virus
Plant viruses are viruses that 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 pathogenic to higher plants.
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.
Transmission
The virus is transmitted by aphid species in the genus ''
Chaetosiphon'', mainly ''
C. fragaefolii'', ''
C. thomasi'', ''C. thomasi 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 hybrids and cultivars. The most common strawberries grown co ...
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 Oc ...
and
Fragaria × ananassa infection appears symptomless.
Susceptible hosts
The susceptible host species are mainly in the families
Rosaceae
Rosaceae (), the rose family, is a medium-sized family of flowering plants that includes 4,828 known species in 91 genera.
The name is derived from the type genus ''Rosa''. Among the most species-rich genera are '' Alchemilla'' (270), '' Sorbu ...
and
Rutaceae
The Rutaceae is a family, commonly known as the rue[RUTACEAE](_blank)
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Citrus aurantium
Bitter orange, Seville orange, bigarade orange, or marmalade orange is the citrus tree ''Citrus'' × ''aurantium'' and its fruit. It is native to Southeast Asia and has been spread by humans to many parts of the world. It is probably a cross bet ...
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* ''Duchesnea indica
''Potentilla indica'' known commonly as mock strawberry, Indian-strawberry, or false strawberry, often referred to as a backyard strawberry, mainly in North America, is a flowering plant in the family Rosaceae. It has foliage and an aggregate a ...
''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 Oc ...
''Fragaria vesca
''Fragaria vesca'', commonly called the wild strawberry, woodland strawberry, Alpine strawberry, Carpathian strawberry or European strawberry, is a perennial herbaceous plant in the rose family that grows naturally throughout much of the Nort ...
''Sanguisorba minor
''Sanguisorba minor'', the salad burnet, garden burnet, small burnet, burnet (also used for '' Sanguisorba'' generally), pimpernelle, Toper's plant, and burnet-bloodwort, is an edible perennial herbaceous plant in the family Rosaceae. It has f ...
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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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