“…Tomato yellow leaf curl disease (TYLCD), caused by tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV), is one of the most devastating begomoviral diseases infecting the tomato crop in diverse tropical, subtropical, and temperate regions around the globe. TYLCV has become the most economically important tomato-invading pathogen, originating from the Middle East and spreading into different countries and regions ( Czosnek and Laterrot, 1997 ; Polston et al., 1999 ; Font et al., 2000 ; Moriones and Navas-Castillo, 2000 ; Lefeuvre et al., 2010 ; Just et al., 2014 ; Ramos et al., 2019 ; Shahid, 2020 ; AlHudaib et al., 2022 ). TYLCV is a member of the genus Begomovirus of the Geminiviridae family, which is distributed globally, and it is difficult to control or eradicate this virus.…”