In March 2025, following the annual International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) ratification vote, newly proposed taxa were added to those under the mandate of the Plant Viruses Subcommittee. In brief, 1 new order, 3 new families, 6 new genera, 2 new subgenera and 206 new species were created. Some taxa were reorganized. Genus Cytorhabdovirus in the family Rhabdoviridae was abolished and its taxa were redistributed into three new genera Alphacytorhabdovirus, Betacytorhabdovirus and Gammacytorhabdovirus. Genus Waikavirus in the family Secoviridae was reorganized into two subgenera (Actinidivirus and Ritunrivirus). One family and four previously unaffiliated genera were moved to the newly established order Tombendovirales. Twelve species not assigned to a genus were abolished. To comply with the ICTV mandate of a binomial format for virus species, eight species were renamed. Demarcation criteria in the absence of biological information were defined in the genus Ilarvirus (family Bromoviridae). This article presents the updated taxonomy put forth by the Plant Viruses Subcommittee and ratified by the ICTV.

Agriculture and Life Sciences Research Institute Kangwon National University Chuncheon Republic of Korea

Agriculture Victoria Research Department of Energy Environment and Climate Action and School of Applied Systems Biology La Trobe University Bundoora Australia

Applied Molecular Biology Laboratory Instituto Biológico de São Paulo São Paulo Brazil

Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics CRAG Barcelona Spain

Centro de Edafología y Biología Aplicada del Segura CSIC Murcia Spain

CIHEAM Istituto Agronomico Mediterraneo of Bari Via Ceglie 9 Valenzano Italy

CIRAD AGAP Institut; AGAP Institut University of Montpellier; CIRAD INRAE Institut Agro 34398 Montpellier France

CIRAD UMR PHIM Montpellier France

CIRAD UMR PVBMT and UMR PVBMT Université de la Réunion F 97410 Saint Pierre de La Réunion France

CIRAD UMR PVBMT Saint Pierre La Réunion France

Council for Agricultural Research and Economics Research Centre for Plant Protection and Certification Rome Italy

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Dep de Fitopatologia BIOAGRO Universidade Federal de Viçosa Viçosa Brazil

Department of Agricultural Science and Plant Protection Mississippi State University Mississippi State MS USA

Department of Agricultural Sciences University of Helsinki Helsinki Finland

Department of Biological Sciences University of Toledo Toledo OH USA

Department of Biology University of Oxford Oxford UK

Department of Cell Biology and Genetics Faculty of Science Palacký University Olomouc Olomouc Czech Republic

Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology Tallinn University of Technology Tallinn Estonia

Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology Division of Agriculture University of Arkansas System Fayetteville AR USA

Department of Molecular and Structural Biochemistry North Carolina State University Raleigh NC USA

Department of Plant Pathology Ecology and Evolution Oklahoma State University Stillwater OK USA

Department of Plant Pathology Entomology and Microbiology Iowa State University Ames IA USA

Department of Plant Pathology Washington State University Pullman WA USA

Department of Plant Protection Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources Gorgan Iran

Department of Plant Sciences University of Cambridge Cambridge UK

Dienstleistungszentrum Ländlicher Raum Rheinpfalz Breitenweg 71 Neustadt an der Weinstrasse Germany

Embrapa Cassava and Fruits Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation Cruz das Almas Brazil

Embrapa Hortaliças Brasília DF Brazil

Embrapa Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia Brasília Brazil

Fera Science Ltd York Biotech Campus Sand Hutton York UK

Food Futures Institute Murdoch University 90 South Street Perth Australia

Humboldt Universität zu Berlin Thaer Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences Unter den Linden 6 Berlin Germany

INRAE UR ASTRO Domaine de Duclos Petit Bourg France

Institut Français de la Vigne et du Vin Le Grau du Roi France

Institut Pasteur Université Paris Cité CNRS UMR6047 Archaeal Virology Unit Paris France

Institute for Plant Protection NARO 2 1 18 Kannondai Tsukuba Japan

Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine University of Cape Town Cape Town South Africa

Institute of Plant Molecular Biology České Budějovice Czech Republic

Institute of Plant Protection NRI ul Wł Węgorka 20 Poznań Poland

Institute of Plant Science and Resources Okayama University Kurashiki Japan

Institute of Plant Virology Ningbo University Ningbo PR China

Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas Universitat Politècnica de Valencia CSIC Valencia Spain

Instituto de Ciências Biológicas Universidade de Brasília Brasília Brazil

Instituto de Hortofruticultura Subtropical y Mediterránea La Mayora Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas Algarrobo Costa Málaga Spain

Instituto de Patología Vegetal INTA CONICET Córdoba Argentina

Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases National Institutes of Health Fort Detrick Frederick MD USA

International Potato Center Lima Peru

Istituto per la Protezione Sostenibile delle Piante CNR Bari Italy

Julius Kühn Institute Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants Institute for Epidemiology and Pathogen Diagnostics Braunschweig Germany

Kochi Agricultural Research Center Nankoku Japan

Liaoning Key Laboratory of Urban Integrated Pest Management and Ecological Security Shenyang University Dadong Shenyang Liaoning PR China

Margarita Salas Center for Biological Research Madrid Spain

Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology Bremen Germany

Molecular Plant Pathology University of Amsterdam Amsterdam Netherlands

National Citrus Engineering and Technology Research Center Integrative Science Center of Germplasm Creation in Western China Science City Citrus Research Institute Southwest University Beibei Chongqing PR China

Natural Resources Institute University of Greenwich Central Avenue Chatham Maritime Kent UK

North Carolina State University Raleigh NC USA

Oklahoma State University Institute for Biosecurity and Microbial Forensics 127 NRC Stillwater OK USA

PHIM Plant Health Institute University of Montpellier INRAE CIRAD IRD Institute Agro Montpellier France

Plant Health and Environment Laboratory 231 Morrin Rd St Johns Auckland New Zealand

Plant Pathology Cornell University Geneva NY USA

Plant Pathology Laboratory TERRA Gembloux Agro Bio Tech University of Liege Liege Belgium

Plant Protection Department Agroscope Nyon Switzerland

Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation The University of Queensland St Lucia QLD Australia

Queensland Department of Primary Industries Brisbane Australia

Retired from John Innes Centre Norwich UK

Rijk Zwaan Breeding B 5 De Lier Netherlands

Saga University Saga Japan

State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio Resources in Yunnan Yunnan Agricultural University Kunming PR China

Strategic Planning Headquarters NARO 3 1 1 Kannondai Tsukuba Japan

Summerland Research and Development Centre Agriculture and Agri Food Canada Summerland Canada

Swedish University of Agriculture Almas Allé 5 Uppsala Sweden

The Biodesign Center for Fundamental and Applied Microbiomics Center for Evolution and Medicine School of Life Sciences Arizona State University Tempe AZ USA

The University of Queensland St Lucia Australia

UMR 1332 Biologie du Fruit et Pathologie University of Bordeaux INRAE Domaine de la Grande Ferrade 71 Avenue Edouard Bourlaux CS 20032 33882 Villenave d'Ornon Cedex France

Unidad de Fitopatología y Modelización Agrícola INTA CONICET Buenos Aires Argentina

University of Delhi South Campus Benito Juarez Road New Delhi India

USDA APHIS Plant Protection and Quarantine 4700 River Road Riverdale MD USA

USDA ARS BARC Molecular Plant Pathology Laboratory Beltsville MD USA

USDA ARS BARC National Germplasm Resources Laboratory Beltsville MD USA

USDA ARS USNA Floral and Nursery Plants Research Unit Beltsville MD USA

Utsunomiya University Utsunomiya Japan

Vali e Asr University of Rafsanjan Department of Plant Protection Rafsanjan Iran

Virus South Data CDV 230980 La Mure France

Wageningen University and Research Wageningen Netherlands

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