In August 2015, sweet pepper plants with yellowing and thickening that resembled symptoms caused by viruses were observed in Liaocheng, Shandong Province, China. Heavy aphid infestations were also observed on the plants. The causal pathogen was identified as Melon aphid-borne yellows virus (MABYV)...

Appropriate management of invasive fungi requires adequate understanding of their global diversities and movement histories. The fungus Leptographium procerum is associated with root-colonizing forest insects in pine forests throughout the world, and may have contributed to the aggressive behaviour ...

Tomato chlorosis virus (ToCV), a member of genus Crinivirus, family Closteroviridae, is a whitefly-transmitted virus that has spread with increasing frequency of infections in solanaceous crops in China. In August 2014, chlorotic spots were observed on pumpkin (Cucurbita moschata) leaves in fields...

During a field investigation carried out during the 2014 growing season, leaves of a kiwifruit (Actinidia chinensis) plant showing symptoms of brown ringspots and necrotic spots were collected from Guizhou Province, China. To identify the potential existence of viruses infecting the plant, total...

In September 2015, a virus-like disease was found in a small garden of jute in the campus of Fujian Agricultural University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China. The infected plants showed symptoms including leaf mosaic, vein yellowing and sometimes leaf deformation. The abundance of whiteflies that feed on the...

During a survey of family-owned farms in 2015 in Tonghai County, Yunnan Province, southwest China, approximately 10% of plants in a farmer's field of Capsicum annuum (spicy pepper) were observed showing dwarfing, leaf chlorotic ringspots and distorted apical buds. The presence of Frankliniella...

In order to clarify the cryptic species of the whitefly Bemisia tabaci transmitting Cotton leaf curl Multan virus (CLCuMuV) in Guangdong Province, molecular identification, whitefly transmission and molecular detection were conducted in the study. The results indicated that, in the fields occurring ...

Following the first identification of Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) in Shanghai, China in 2006, it has been reported from many provinces of China as one of the most important tomato pathogens. TYLCV is transmitted by whitefly Bemisia tabaci, while weed plants act as intermediate hosts and...

In August 2015, symptomatic pumpkin (Cucurbita moschata) plants were observed in Linyi, Shandong province, China. Plants exhibited symptoms of leaf mottling, crinkling and mosaic which appeared similar to symptoms caused by Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV). Twenty field samples, 2 symptomatic and...

In this study, we monitored the carrying rate of ToCV of Bemisia tabaci in major tomato production areas of China in 2013 and 2014. We discovered that in 2013, among all B. tabaci samples collected from 16 different areas of China, those from Yuncheng Shanxi, Taiyuan Shanxi, Shanghe Shandong,...