PRO/PL> New viruses, capsicum & citrus – multicountry

Other Plant Disease — Worldwide/Unknown
In Peru, a new begomovirus has been identified from a yellow Peruvian chilli pepper (_Capsicum baccatum_ var. _pendulum_) plant showing severe leaf curl symptoms and collected from a crop located in La Libertad department. The name Pepper leafroll virus (PepLRV) was proposed. Further studies showed that PepLRV could [also] be detected in different parts of Peru [and] from several other cultivated species, such as tomato (_Solanum lycopersicum_), bean (_Phaseolus_ species), [as well as] the