“…From there, TYLCV quickly spread to the USA, where it was identified in Virginia, Tennessee and South Carolina in the mid1990s (Polston et al, 1995), then in Florida (Polston and Anderson, 1997), Georgia (Momol et al, 1999), Mississippi (Ingram and Henn, 2001) and in Central America (Mexico) (Ascencio-Ibáñez et al, 1999;Banuelos-Hernandez et al, 2012;Brown and Idris, 2006). Other independent introductions of TYLCV into the Caribbean likely occurred when TYLCV-IL moved from East-Asia between 2006 and 2011 (Figs.…”