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Tospoviruses are the only plant infecting members of Bunyaviridae. This virus family includes such nasty mammalian viruses as blue tongue and hantavirus. Most Bunyaviruses involve an insect vector, which spreads the virus between hosts. This is also the case with tospoviruses where several different species of thrips (Thysanoptera) serve as vectors. In the United States the chief vectors are Frankliniella occidentalis, F. fusca and Thrips tabaci. Of these F. occidentalis, the western flower thrips, has the broadest host range affecting a diverse variety of ornamental and vegetable crops. F. fusca has proven economically important as a vector in the peanut industry and T. tabaci vectors a strain of tospoviruses in onion and garlic crops.
I have recently culled through the database and
assembled a list of plant families, number of species, and tospoviruses.
Please check out my table of Families, Species and
Viruses.
From this list I have found the following: # Plant Families susceptible:
110 identified families (1 plant species listed without
families identified).
# Plant Species susceptible: 857 named
species
More tospoviruses are being identified all the time,
here is the current list of 'species' of tospoviruses
To date I have used 269 publications to add
information to the host list and to this website. (see
citation list)
. If I am missing a publication, please let me know. I want this
site to be as complete as possible!
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