“…Many viruses belonging to Tymovirus, Potyvirus, Cucumovirus, Tobamovirus and Carlavirus genera were reported to infect eggplant (Sastry, 1982;Vyanjane and Mali, 1984;Zhou et al, 2015;Hančinský et al, 2020), which can cause significant damage due to plant stunting, crinkling, and mottling accompanied by leaf and fruit abnormalities. The viruses that commonly occur in eggplant either in field or greenhouse cultivation are cucumber mosaic virus, CMV (Crescenzi et al, 1994;Bagewadi et al, 2015), potato virus Y, PVY (Sastry et al, 1974;Sadeghi et al, 2008), as well as alfalfa mosaic virus, AMV (Kemp and Troup, 1977;Al-Ani et al, 2011). Although AMV has been described as being able to infect eggplant, it is considered to be of minor economic importance to eggplant (Marchoux and Rougier, 1974;Al-Shahwan and Abdulla, 1998).…”