“…Traditionally, the most common preventive measures for begomoviral disease control are the application of insecticides against the vector and the use of resistant cultivars (Lapidot and Friedmann, 2002;Hurtado et al, 2012). To date, genes of the series Ty-1 to Ty-6 (and a few others such as tcm-1 and ty-5) were reported to provide resistance/tolerance to tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV), the most widespread begomovirus in the world (e.g., Zamir et al, 1994;Giordano et al, 2005;Anbinder et al, 2009;Ji et al, 2009;Hutton et al, 2012;Bai et al, 2018;Gill et al, 2019); some of these genes can provide a moderate level of control against NW begomoviruses (Giordano et al, 2005;Boiteux et al, 2007;Aguilera et al, 2011). For example, an experimental heterozygous hybrid carrying Ty-1 was less infected and displayed milder or no symptom under infection of the Brazilian begomoviruses tomato rugose mosaic virus (ToRMV) and tomato yellow vein streak virus (ToYVSV), and thus classified as tolerant to these viruses (Boiteux et al, 2007).…”