Pepper golden mosaic virus is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Geminiviridae.

It affects Capsicum annuum and all tomatoes.

It was first discovered in Texas in 1987, and was called Texas Pepper Virus, and a two years later in Mexico after it destroyed up to 100% of plants in afflicted fields in the autumn of 1989, mainly in north-west Mexico.

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