“…This type of vegetative propagation is an efficient way for virus transmission ( Sharma et al, 2005 ; Zhang et al, 2017 ). To date, more than 15 lily-infecting viruses have been reported, including lily symptomless virus (LSV), lily mottle virus (LMoV), cucumber mosaic virus (CMV), plantago asiatica mosaic virus (PlAMV), tulip virus X (TVX), tobacco rattle virus (TRV) ( Jo and Cho, 2018 ), lily yellow mosaic virus (LYMV) ( Li et al, 2017 ), strawberry latent ringspot virus (SLRSV) ( Sharma et al, 2005 ), lily virus X ( Nijo et al, 2018 ), arabis mosaic virus (ArMV) ( Zheng et al, 2003 ), prunus necrotic ringspot virus (PNRSV) ( Han and Liu, 2007 ), lily virus A ( Wylie et al, 2012 ), shallot yellow stripe virus (SYSV) ( Xu et al, 2022 ), tomato ringspot virus (ToRSV) ( Bellardi et al, 2002 ), milk retch dwarf virus (MDV) ( Choi et al, 2019 ), and narcissus mosaic virus (NaMV) ( Bertaccini, 1988 ). Among these viruses, only MDV is a single-stranded DNA virus, and the other 15 viruses are positive-sense RNA viruses.…”