“…In 1972, Zitter described this virus from Capsicum annuum in Florida (USA) (Zitter 1972). And afterward, PeMV has been detected from different countries such as Japan (Ogawa et al 2003), Korea (Kim et al 2009), Cuba (Quiñones et al 2011), Taiwan (Cheng et al 2011), India (Kaur et al 2014),, nigeria (Olawale et al 2015) and China (Sharma et al 2018).…”