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No transmission of Potato spindle tuber viroid shown in experiments with thrips (Frankliniella occidentalis, Thrips tabaci), honey bees (Apis mellifera) and bumblebees (Bombus terrestris)

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Experiments were carried out to investigate whether Potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd) can be transmitted intra- and inter-species from infected Solanum jasminoides to non-infected S. jasminoides and S. esculentum and from infected Brugmansia sp. to S. esculentum by Frankliniella occidentalis and Thrips tabaci by leaf sucking. The F. occidentalis experiments also included feeding on pollen prior to feeding on PSTVd-infected leaf. No thrips-mediated transmission of PSTVd was recorded. The possibility of PSTVd transmission by Apis mellifera and Bombus terrestris during their feeding/pollinating activities within ornamentals and from ornamentals to S. esculentum was included, and no bee-mediated transmission was recorded.

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Dr J. Th. J. Verhoeven, Plant Protection Service, Wageningen, NL is acknowledged for providing isolates of PSTVd. The activities were supported through the EU ERA-network EUPHRESCO and financed by the Danish Ministry of Food, Agriculture & Fisheries, Danish Food Industry Agency, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food of the Republic of Slovenia and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management.

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  1. Department of Agroecology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Aarhus University, Forsøgsvej 1, DK-4200, Slagelse, Denmark

    Steen Lykke Nielsen, Annie Enkegaard, Mogens Nicolaisen & Per Kryger

  2. Agricultural Institute of Slovenia, Hacquetova ulica 17, Sl-1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Mojca Viršček Marn & Irena Mavrič Pleško

  3. Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES), Institute of Plant Health, Spargelfeldstr. 191, 1220, Vienna, Austria

    Andreas Kahrer & Richard A. Gottsberger

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Nielsen, S.L., Enkegaard, A., Nicolaisen, M. et al. No transmission of Potato spindle tuber viroid shown in experiments with thrips (Frankliniella occidentalis, Thrips tabaci), honey bees (Apis mellifera) and bumblebees (Bombus terrestris). Eur J Plant Pathol 133, 505–509 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10658-012-9937-0

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