Torrado & Marchitez viruses - De Ruiter Seeds researchers at the head of the pack

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De Ruiter Seeds researchers in collaboration with Plant Research International (Wageningen, Holland) identified that “Torrado” and “Marchitez” were caused by a totally new genus of virus. They named these viruses Tomato Torrado Virus (ToTV) (Verbeek et al., 2007 ) and Tomato Marchitez Virus (ToMarV) (Verbeek et al., 2007(2)), two closely related, but different, viruses