Table 2. TSWV vector competence of eight Australian thelytokous T. tabaci populations originally sourced from potato, onion and chrysanthemum using different acquisition and transmission host combinations and individual thrips per leaf disk.
| Acquisition/ transmission host |
Number of TSWV infected leaf disks per total (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SAP (potato) | TASFT (potato) | TASP (potato) | SAM (onion) | TASBH (onion) | NSWC (onion) | NSWW (onion) | TASCHR (chrysanthemum) | |
| Tomato to tobacco | — | 12/12 (100) | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Tomato to tobacco | — | 0/20 (0) | — | 0/20 (0) | 0/20 (0) | 0/20 (0) | 0/20 (0) | — |
| Tomato to tobacco | — | 1/3 (33) | — | 0/3 (0) | 0/3 (0) | 0/3 (0) | — | — |
| Tomato to nightshade | — | 2/4 (50) | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Tomato to tomato | — | 2/2 (100) | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Datura to Datura | 3/10 (30) | 0/10 (0) | — | 0/10 (0) | 0/10 (0) | — | — | 0/10 (0) |
| Datura to Datura | 3/10 (30) | 2/10 (20) | 2/10 (20) | 0/10 (0) | 0/10 (0) | — | — | 0/10 (0) |
| Datura to tobacco | — | 1/10 (10) | — | 0/10 (0) | 0/10 (0) | — | — | — |
| Datura to potato | 4/10 (40) | — | — | 0/10 (0) | 0/10 (0) | — | — | 0/10 (0) |
| Datura to potato | 0/20 (0) | 0/20 (0) | — | 0/20 (0) | 0/20 (0) | — | — | 0/20 (0) |
| Total transmissions per population | 10/50 (20) | 20/91 (22) | 2/10 (20) | 0/83 (0) | 0/83 (0) | 0/23 (0) | 0/20 (0) | 0/50 (0) |