Claim · model-written summary
The isolate caused symptomatic infection in Citrullus lanatus after inoculation.
- Taxon
- Citrullus lanatus
Citrullus lanatuse0 - Treatment
- inoculatione0
- Interactor
- ZYMV
Zucchini yellow mosaic virust0pathogen - Outcome
- Symptomatic infectione0
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Verbatim
e0“Symptomatic infection was observed seven days after inoculation in cucurbit species, including C. moschata, C. maxima, C. pepo, C. ficifolia, Cucumis sativus, C. melo and Citrullus lanatus”
t0“Zucchini Yellow Mosaic Virus (ZYMV)”
Title
First Report of Zucchini Yellow Mosaic Virus (ZYMV) Infecting Cucurbita maxima in Perú
Rodrigo Valencia; Isabel Montes; Alexis Dueñas; et al. Plant Disease 2025. doi:10.1094/pdis-01-25-0127-pdn
Other claims from this paper (19)
- Observation ZYMV was detected in symptomatic Macre squash in Peru.
- Observation Symptomatic Macre squash plants showed foliar mosaic and fruit deformation in La Molina.
- Observation ZYMV prevalence in sampled squash was 60–71%.
- Observation The assembled ZYMV sequence from squash was 9,484 nt long.
- Observation The squash ZYMV sequence had 98.9% identity to a United Kingdom sequence.
- Observation The squash ZYMV sequence had 91.6% identity to a Brazilian sequence.
- Observation Read mapping supported ZYMV as the sole cause of the observed disease.
- Method / resource Sanger sequencing confirmed 99.9% identity with the HTS-derived ZYMV sequence.
- Intervention effect The isolate caused symptomatic infection in C. moschata after inoculation.
- Intervention effect The isolate caused symptomatic infection in C. maxima after inoculation.
- Intervention effect The isolate caused symptomatic infection in C. pepo after inoculation.
- Intervention effect The isolate caused symptomatic infection in C. ficifolia after inoculation.
- Intervention effect The isolate caused symptomatic infection in Cucumis sativus after inoculation.
- Intervention effect The isolate caused symptomatic infection in C. melo after inoculation.
- Intervention effect Luffa spp. showed no signs of infection after inoculation.
- Intervention effect Cyclanthera pedata showed no signs of infection after inoculation.
- Intervention effect Chenopodium quinoa developed local chlorotic lesions after inoculation.
- Intervention effect Ch. amaranticolor developed local chlorotic lesions after inoculation.
- Observation The study presents the first official ZYMV report in Peru and describes coastal squash regions as widely affected.