“…Tobacco streak ilarvirus (TSV) occurs world-wide in temperate regions, infecting crop, ornamental and weed species (Fulton, 1985), In Atistralia it has been most studied in south-eastern Queensland where it occurs in scattered locations in tobacco, strawberry, dahlia and various weed species (Greber, 1971(Greber, , 1979Finlay, 1974;Greber et al,, 1991), Most collections of TSV from Queensland are serologically similar and are of the Ageratum strain (TSV-Ag), previously called Asclepias strain (Sdoodee, 1989), However, TSV from strawberry (TSV-S) is distinct and resembles most closely the bean red node strain in the USA (Greber, 1979); it may have been originally introduced from North America in strawberry, and has not been found to naturally infect other host plants in Queensland. The third strain of TSV (TSV-A) reported in Australia was isolated from the ornamental plant Ajuga reptans L, in Melbourne, Victoria (Shukla and Gough, 1983), These three TSV strains differ in host range, symptomatology and gel-diffusion serological tests (Sdoodee, 1989), TSV was transmitted erratically by Frankliniella sp, in Brazil (Costa and Costa Lima Neto, 1976) and by a mixture of Thrips tabaci Lindeman and F. occidentalis (Pergande) in Washington State (Kaiser et al,, 1982), Subsequently T. tabaci and Microcephalothrips abdominalis (Crawford) were shown to be vectors of TSV-Ag in Queensland, but only if virus-contaminated pollen was present (Sdoodee and Teakle, 1987;Greber et al,, 1991),…”