Global Advances in Tomato Virome Research: Current Status and the Impact of High-Throughput Sequencing.

ABSTRACT: Viruses cause a big fraction of economically important diseases in major crops, including tomato. In the past decade (2011-2020), many emerging or re-emerging tomato-infecting viruses were reported worldwide. In this period, 45 novel viral species were identified in tomato, 14 of which were discovered using high-throughput sequencing (HTS). In this review, we first discuss the role of HTS in these discoveries and its general impact on tomato virome research. We observed that the rate of tomato virus discovery is accelerating in the past few years due to the use of HTS. However, the extent of the post-discovery characterization of viruses is lagging behind and is greater for economically devastating viruses, such as the recently emerged tomato brown rugose fruit virus. Moreover, many known

SUBMITTER: Rivarez MPS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8175903 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature