EPPO BulletinPub Date : 2024-08-26DOI: 10.1111/epp.13025
Pascal Rousse, Andrea Taddei, Raphaëlle Mouttet, Christa Lethmayer, Sylvia Blümel, Richard A. Gottsberger, Helga Reisenzein, Philippe Reynaud
{"title":"Q-Tephrikey, an interactive tool for the identification of regulated fruit fly pests in the European Union","authors":"Pascal Rousse, Andrea Taddei, Raphaëlle Mouttet, Christa Lethmayer, Sylvia Blümel, Richard A. Gottsberger, Helga Reisenzein, Philippe Reynaud","doi":"10.1111/epp.13025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/epp.13025","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The European Union (EU) regulation for fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) was modified in 2022, and the broad ‘non-European Tephritidae’ group was replaced by a list of 75 regulated taxa (66 species and nine genera). The National Reference Laboratories in the EU must now be able to identify all of them, whatever the development stage, in order to carry out official surveillance. To help laboratories, the European Union Reference Laboratory for Insects and Mites developed an interactive and multi-entry online key called Q-Tephrikey. The key is now freely available on the XPer3 website. It covers a total of 113 tephritid taxa, encompassing the regulated ones, 12 species listed as non-regulated exceptions and the species that have been intercepted in Europe. The taxa are encoded in two morphological matrices for adults and for larvae. This latter one is less extensive because only 38 species among the 113 taxa are described at the larval stage. To help the diagnosticians, the morphological matrices are accompanied by a pathway matrix encoded for the distributions and host ranges of each taxon. We present here the detailed content and functioning of Q-Tephrikey, and discuss its strengths and weaknesses in terms of its objectives. The key is available at https://q-tephrikey.identificationkey.org/mkey.html.</p>","PeriodicalId":34952,"journal":{"name":"EPPO Bulletin","volume":"54 2","pages":"194-203"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/epp.13025","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142077887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EPPO BulletinPub Date : 2024-08-26DOI: 10.1111/epp.13031
{"title":"Introduction to PM 7 Standards on Diagnostics","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/epp.13031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/epp.13031","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34952,"journal":{"name":"EPPO Bulletin","volume":"54 2","pages":"112-113"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142077769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The first surveillance report for Xylella fastidiosa in olive and stone fruit orchards in Palestine","authors":"Osama Alabdallah, Raed Alkowni, Jehad Radwan, Suha Ghzayal, Shatella Jaradat, Salameh Shubib, Samer Jarrar, Franco Valentini","doi":"10.1111/epp.13023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/epp.13023","url":null,"abstract":"<p><i>Xylella fastidiosa</i> has been identified as the causal agent of several horticultural plant diseases that have resulted in major economic and cultural heritage losses. In the last decade, <i>X. fastidiosa</i> emerged as a destructive phytopathogen on olive trees in the Apulia region, Italy, prompting widespread surveillance throughout the Mediterranean basin. The present paper reports monitoring efforts for <i>X. fastidiosa</i> in Palestine on olive for 5 years (2017–2022) and 1 year (2022) on stone fruit trees, as a result of international collaboration projects. No signs of olive quick decline syndrome were observed on olive trees in all the Palestinian olive-growing lands. This observation was confirmed by molecular tests using LAMP technology and PCR. In addition, 500 leaf samples from stone fruit trees (almond, apricot, peach, nectarine and plum) were tested using LAMP and PCR. All of these samples were negative for <i>X. fastidiosa</i>, even though few of the samples from almond trees in Idna (Hebron governorate) and apricot trees in Bal'a (Tulkarm governorate) showed leaf scorch-like symptoms. This study provides confirmation that these important horticultural crops in Palestine (olive and stone fruits) are still free of <i>X. fastidiosa</i>. Preventive measures and surveillance of these and other horticultural crops such as grapevine and citrus trees are strongly recommended.</p>","PeriodicalId":34952,"journal":{"name":"EPPO Bulletin","volume":"54 2","pages":"236-242"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142077889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EPPO BulletinPub Date : 2024-08-14DOI: 10.1111/epp.13027
Sven M. H. Berendsen, Ludivine A. Thomas, Joyce H. C. Woudenberg, Yorick Speksnijders, Wilfried Jonkers, Sukhi Pannu, Anna M. Viles, Thomas K. Baldwin
{"title":"Development and validation of a multiplex real-time RT-PCR test for the screening of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) for the detection of pepino mosaic virus","authors":"Sven M. H. Berendsen, Ludivine A. Thomas, Joyce H. C. Woudenberg, Yorick Speksnijders, Wilfried Jonkers, Sukhi Pannu, Anna M. Viles, Thomas K. Baldwin","doi":"10.1111/epp.13027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/epp.13027","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Pepino mosaic virus (PepMV) is known to cause a wide range of symptoms in cultivated tomato plants, damaging fruits and crops. Currently, five genotypes of PepMV are known (US1, CH2, EU, LP and PES), which can all infect tomato plants. Tomato seed is a proven pathway for PepMV, and the virus is known to easily spread mechanically during crop handling. A multiplex real-time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test was developed and validated for the specific identification of PepMV isolates from tomato seeds. This test is designed to be used for diagnostics and seed health tests as a pre-screen to distinguish negative PepMV samples from suspect samples or as a confirmation test of a positive ELISA or bioassay test result. The multiplex real-time RT-PCR test consists of two PepMV-specific real-time RT-PCR tests and a Bacopa chlorosis virus real-time RT-PCR test as an internal amplification control. The analytical specificity of the developed test was evaluated by in vitro and in silico analyses. The analytical sensitivity was evaluated by creating three dilution series of naturally PepMV-infected leaf tissue in healthy tomato seed extracts and the diagnostic specificity and sensitivity were validated on a collection of seed lots.</p>","PeriodicalId":34952,"journal":{"name":"EPPO Bulletin","volume":"54 2","pages":"243-251"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142077895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EPPO BulletinPub Date : 2024-08-14DOI: 10.1111/epp.13022
R. Mouttet, A. Taddei
{"title":"First record of Atherigona orientalis Schiner, 1868 (Diptera: Muscidae) in France","authors":"R. Mouttet, A. Taddei","doi":"10.1111/epp.13022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/epp.13022","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The first record of the pepper fruit fly, <i>Atherigona orientalis</i> Schiner, 1868, in mainland France is reported in this paper. Larvae were found in 2022 in fruits of <i>Capsicum annuum</i> and adults were reared in 2023 from <i>Passiflora caerulea</i> fruits in two localities of southern France. This species has pantropical distribution and is characterized by sarco-saprophagous habits, but in some conditions can act as a primary pest of Solanaceae crops.</p>","PeriodicalId":34952,"journal":{"name":"EPPO Bulletin","volume":"54 2","pages":"230-235"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/epp.13022","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142077939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EPPO BulletinPub Date : 2024-08-14DOI: 10.1111/epp.13024
Soo-Jung Suh, Wattanachai Tasen
{"title":"Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) intercepted at South Korean points of entry","authors":"Soo-Jung Suh, Wattanachai Tasen","doi":"10.1111/epp.13024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/epp.13024","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Sixty-two species of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) were intercepted at South Korean points of entry on plants for planting imported from tropical and subtropical Asia from 1996 to 2023. Information on the number of interceptions, host plants, consignment origin and their years of interception is provided. Data on intercepted ant species were analysed to determine potential invasive species of ants that could cause damage not only to agricultural, forestry, and natural ecosystems but also to industry and that could endanger human health.</p>","PeriodicalId":34952,"journal":{"name":"EPPO Bulletin","volume":"54 2","pages":"151-159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142077896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EPPO BulletinPub Date : 2024-08-11DOI: 10.1111/epp.13020
{"title":"Corrigendum – PP3 series on environmental risk assessment of plant protection products","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/epp.13020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/epp.13020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34952,"journal":{"name":"EPPO Bulletin","volume":"54 2","pages":"252"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/epp.13020","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142077921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"First data on the occurrence and population dynamics of the fall armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in Greece","authors":"Ioanna Lytra, Vasiliki Evangelou, Spyridon Antonatos, Iro Georgopoulou, Evangellia Tselou, Danai Dimopoulou, Christos Arampatzis, Panagiotis Milonas, Dimitrios P. Papachristos","doi":"10.1111/epp.13021","DOIUrl":"10.1111/epp.13021","url":null,"abstract":"<p><i>Spodoptera frugiperda</i> (Smith) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), commonly known as the fall armyworm, is one of the most serious pests of a wide range of plants including maize, soybean, cotton and rice. It is native to tropical and subtropical regions of the American continent and is considered as a quarantine pest for the European Union. Official surveys for the early detection of quarantine pests are performed annually in Greece. In the framework of that survey program, a network of pheromone traps for <i>S. frugiperda</i> has been established since 2019. From 2019 until 2022 no individuals of the pest were found in the traps. However, in autumn of 2023 the pest was first recorded in Greece. Male adults of the species were captured in those traps in seven regional units of south and central parts of Greece from September to December 2023. All the traps in which the pest was caught were placed in fields with Solanaceae plants, mainly tomatoes and eggplants. Moreover, larvae of the pest were also recorded in maize and tomato fields in Crete. From the collected data available it seems that the first adults caught in September most likely migrated to Greece from countries elsewhere in the region.</p>","PeriodicalId":34952,"journal":{"name":"EPPO Bulletin","volume":"54 2","pages":"217-223"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141920940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}