S U M M A R YThe properties and mode of transmission of strawberry latent ringspot virus (SLRV) are described. Natural infections have been found, in several widely separated localities, on cultivated and wild rosaceous species-strawberry, raspberry, cherry, plum, black currant-and on elder (Caprifoliaceae), but so far no diseases in these plants have definitely been associated with SLRV. Similarly, SLRV was transmitted mechanically to a wide range of hosts, many of which it infected symptomlessly. SLRV is transmitted by Xiphinema diversicaudatum (Micoletsky), has polyhedral-shaped particles of about 26 mp diameter, and has other features that suggest it should be classified along with a group of other similar soil-borne viruses.