The ToBRF virus has been found in Turkey. The British Society for Plant Pathology confirms finding of the virus in Antalya greenhouses in their magazine New Disease Reports.
ToBRFV
ToBRFV (Tomato Brown Rugose Fruit Virus) has been popping up on tomato growing sites all over the world. According to EPPO, the virus was confirmed in Germany, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Mexico and the USA - and since it's not a quarantaine virus in every country, making it not obliged to report infection, and since it is easily confused with TMV, this list might not be complete.
Almost all current available tomato varieties are resistant to both TMV and TOMV, but this new virus broke the resistance. The symptoms are similar to the PepMV.
ToBRFV can spread out easily within a greenhouse since it can spread out via hardware being used in the greenhouse. Spreading from one greenhouse to another can occur via visitors or seasonal workers, exchanging material but also birds, or even a united packing hall.
Countries like Mexico, Japan, Turkey and Australia have begun to implement restrictions on tomato and pepper seed imports - but still the virus has been found in Turkish greenhouses. The magazine New Disease Reports writes how greenhouse tomato showed symptons of the disease in January 2019. "Leaves with chlorotic mosaic, mottling, rugosity and occasional narrowing. (Fig. 1). Necrotic spots were observed on the peduncle, calyces and petioles and the fruit was rough with chlorotic and necrotic patches (Fig. 2)."
These symptoms resemble those caused by several different tomato viruses but 27 samples collected from two greenhouses (of which approximately 20% of the total area of 0.7 ha was diseased) were tessted by RT-PCR for the presence of Pepino mosaic virus, Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV), Tomato mosaic virus (ToMV) and Tomato spotted wilt virus.
Since the results of these assays were all negative a generic primer set was used to detect tomato-infecting tobamoviruses by RT-PCR (Luria et al., 2017). It turns out the virus sequence was found that resembles the ToBRFV sequence found earlier in Germany, Israel and Jordan.