In August 2021, symptoms of a viral-like infection were observed on the leaves and fruits of tomato plants, cvs. Emperador RZF1 (Rijk Zwaan, The Netherlands) Maxifort, Eshkol and 4129 (Seminis Vegetable Seeds, USA) in a 3.2 ha greenhouse complex in Isfahan province, Iran. Plants had been raised in Iran from imported seed. The symptoms consisted of severe mosaic and deformation of leaves (especially the upper and young leaves) and chlorotic and brown necrotic spots on the fruits (Figure 1). These symptoms resembled those of Tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV) reported elsewhere (Salem et al., 2016). About 30% of plants were affected by symptoms across the green-
F I G U R E 1 Tomato brown rugose fruit virus symptoms on tomato leaves and fruitThis is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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