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Diversity, Characterisation and Classification of PVY

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Potato virus Y: biodiversity, pathogenicity, epidemiology and management

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Since the discovery of PVY in the 1930s, many strain groups and variants have been described although consensus on an agreed international nomenclature is still a matter of debate. The challenge for plant pathologists studying PVY remains to establish the biological significance of the genomic diversity of PVY arising from the new, diverse PVY populations and how it impacts on crop production in practice. The distribution and range of PVY variants identified over the years highlight the ongoing threat that PVY poses to solanaceous crops worldwide. While genome sequencing provides accurate information on the genomic structure of an isolate and has become the method of choice as a first step to studying the phylogeny of novel isolates and their affiliation to a genotypic group, it is not a sufficient criterion to assign a PVY isolate to a specific strain group, as groups are identified by a defined set of reactions or symptoms that develop following infection of a range of potato cultivars harbouring known resistance genes and on tobacco plants. The purpose of this chapter is to give an update on the current status of knowledge of PVY diversity identified in different geographical regions and insights into identification and classification of PVY variants.

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Glais, L., Bellstedt, D.U., Lacomme, C. (2017). Diversity, Characterisation and Classification of PVY. In: Lacomme, C., Glais, L., Bellstedt, D., Dupuis, B., Karasev, A., Jacquot, E. (eds) Potato virus Y: biodiversity, pathogenicity, epidemiology and management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58860-5_3

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