“…Southern tomato virus (STV) (family Amalgaviridae, genus Amalgavirus), a double-stranded (ds) RNA virus, was first detected in tomato plants in United States and Mexico exhibiting stunting of the growing tips, fruit discoloration, and reduced fruit size (Sabanadzovic et al, 2009). Since then, it was also reported in several European countries (Iacono et al, 2015;Verbeek et al, 2015;Pecman et al, 2018;Gaafar et al, 2019;HortDaily, 2019;WUR, 2019), Bangladesh (Padmanabhan et al, 2015c), China (Padmanabhan et al, 2015b), and South Korea (Oh et al, 2018), and so far only in tomato plants. STV coinfections with other viruses are frequent, as well as detections of STV in asymptomatic tomatoes (Alcalá-Briseño et al, 2017).…”