Claim · model-written summary
Symptomatic Macre squash plants showed foliar mosaic and fruit deformation in La Molina.
- Taxon
- C. maxima
Cucurbita maximae0 - Material
- Macree0
- Outcome
- foliar mosaic and fruit deformatione0
- Setting
- La Molina, Lima, Perue0
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Verbatim
e0“C. maxima cv. Macre plants exhibiting symptoms of foliar mosaic and fruit deformation were observed in fields located in La Molina, Lima, Peru”
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 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 The isolate caused symptomatic infection in Citrullus lanatus 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.