Tomato leaf curl China virus

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Tomato leaf curl China virus
Virus classification Edit this classification
(unranked): Virus
Realm: Monodnaviria
Kingdom: Shotokuvirae
Phylum: Cressdnaviricota
Class: Repensiviricetes
Order: Geplafuvirales
Family: Geminiviridae
Genus: Begomovirus
Species:
Begomovirus solanumchinaense

Tomato leaf curl China virus is a virus that infects tomato plants in China and was first described in 2011. The virus infects tomatoes in the Chinese province of Guangxi, and it is transmitted by the whitefly.[1] The current EPPO name is TOLCCV, but its original name in the literature was ToLCCNV.[2]

It belongs to the genus Begomovirus, which also contains Tomato yellow leaf curl China virus.[3]

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