First report of Grapevine yellow speckle viroid 1 infecting grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) in Canada

• Published in: Plant disease
• Main Authors: Xu, Dong, Adkar-Purushothama, Charith Raj, Lemoyne, Pierre, Perreault, JP, Jean Pierre, Fall, Mamadou
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: United States 01.12.2021
• Subjects: Fruit; Crop Type; Pathogen detection; Causal Agent; Viruses and viroids; Subject Areas; tree fruits

Quebec is the third largest wine grape producer in Canada in acreage, tonnage, and wine grape sales (Carisse et al. 2017; Ben Moussa et al. 2019). To evaluate the diversity of viruses infecting grapevine in Quebec, a total of 77 leaf tissue samples (cv. Vidal) were collected from July to October in...