title: High prevalence of poleroviruses in field-grown pepper in Turkey and Tunisia.
abstract: Open-field pepper crops were sampled in 2011 in Turkey and Tunisia and surveyed for the major pepper-infecting viruses. As expected, potato virus Y and cucumber mosaic virus (in both countries), and tobacco etch virus (in Turkey only) were quite frequent. However, poleroviruses were the most common viruses, with prevalences above 70 %. Partial sequence analyses revealed the occurrence of poleroviruses resembling either beet western yellows virus (BWYV) or pepper vein yellows virus in the sampled areas, with BWYV being predominant in Turkey but in the minority in Tunisia. Poleroviruses should therefore be taken into account in disease control of pepper crops in the Mediterranean area.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Sütçü Imam, 46060, Kahramanmaras, Turkey.
authors.forename: Nihal
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Buzkan
authors.forename: Bülent B
authors.initials: BB
authors.lastname: Arpaci
authors.forename: Vincent
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Simon
authors.forename: Hatem
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Fakhfakh
authors.forename: Benoît
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Moury
mesh_terms: D002212:Capsicum / Q000821:virology*; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; D052679:Luteoviridae / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D019083:Mediterranean Region; D010802:Phylogeny; D010935:Plant Diseases / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000821:virology*; D012367:RNA, Viral; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D014416:Tunisia / Q000453:epidemiology; D014421:Turkey / Q000453:epidemiology
chemical_list: D012367:RNA, Viral