“…In peach ( Prunus persicae ), PLMVd can induce a broad variety of symptoms: mosaic, large white patches covering most of the leaf blade, irregularly shaped colourless fruits with cracked sutures and enlarged pits, bud necrosis and delay in foliation, flowering and maturity and a general wilting (Desvignes, 1986). The incidence of PLMVd reached up to 60% in North American germplasm (Shamloul et al., 1995; Hadidi et al., 1997), 40% in Syrian germplasm (Ismaeil et al., 2001), 50% in Italian germplasm (Loreti et al., 1998), 64% in Chinese germplasm (Zhang et al., 2000), 68% in Australian germplasm (Di Serio et al., 1999), 80–85% in Spanish germplasm (Flores et al., 1992) and 90% in Japanese germplasm (Osaki et al., 1999). In orchards, the infection rate of commercial varieties of peach and nectarine in five USA states reached 50% (Skrzeczkowski et al., 1996).…”