“…LYSV is one of the most important and widespread viruses of garlic and leek (Bos, 1981;Diekmann, 1997). As a very widespread virus, LYSV has been detected in Brazil (Fajardo et al, 2001), Argentina (Conci et al, 2002), the USA (Pappu, 2005, Testen et al, 2014, China (Chen et al, 2002), Vietnam (Ha et al, 2008), India (Gupta et al, 2013), Equador (Oleas & Arahana, 2016), Morrocco and Egypt (van Dijk, 1993), as well as in many European countries: France, Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia and Poland (Delecolle & Lot, 1981;Lot et al, 1998;Mavrič & Ravnikar, 2005;Chodorska et al, 2014;Vončina et al, 2016;Vučurović et al, 2016). In some countries, such as Israel (Salomon et al, 1996;Shiboleth et al, 2001), Greece (Dovas et al, 2001), Italy (Dovas &Vovlas, 2003), Syria (Mohammad et al, 2007) and Turkey (Fidan & Baloglu, 2009), LYSV is considered the most frequent virus.…”