“…To our knowledge this is the first report of natural infection of Sambucus ebulus, Cichorium intybus, Conyza canadensis, Helliotropium europaeum, Lactuca serriola, Picris echioides and Scabiosa tennuiis by PVY (Schmelzer, 1967;De Bokx and Huttinga, 1981;Katis, 1984;Edwardson and Christie, 1997;Espino de Paz et al, 1997;Sˇkoric´et al, 2000;Fletcher, 2001;Kazinczi et al, 2002), of Fumaria officinalis by CMV Francki et al, 1979;Ford et al, 1988;Lorbeer, 1989, 1991;Crescenzi et al, 1993;Lavin´a et al, 1996;Fletcher, 2001;Rodriguez-Alvarado et al, 2002), and of Scabiosa tenuiis and Urtica dioica by AMV (Jaspars and Bos, 1980;Fletcher, 2001;Kazinczi et al, 2002). Some others such as Cirsium arvense, Cyperus rotundus, Mentha pulegium, Xanthium spinosum and X. strumarium for PVY, Amaranthus blitoides, Chondrila juncea, Malva neglecta and Mentha pulegium for CMV, as well as Cyperus rotundus and Picris echioides for AMV, were found infected for the first time by ELISA, but the virus detected was not readily recoverable in bioassays.…”