“…Top grafting as the most massive inoculation method facilitates the detection of all types of resistance and the different degrees of resistance to PPV (Syrgianidis, 1980;Kegler et al, 1985Syrgianidis and Mainou, 1985;Dosba et al, 1992;Polâk and Kominek, 1995;Polâk et al, 1995Polâk et al, , 1996Polâk et al, , 1997Krska et al, 1997). Furthermore, chip budding and aphid transmission were used successfully as artificial inoculation methods, but in apricot aphid transmission led to a higher level of infections than chip budding (Zawadzka, 1980;Kegler et al, 1983Kegler et al, , 1985Sutic and Rankovic 1983;Hamdorf, 1984Hamdorf, , 1986bHamdorf, , 1992Bivol et al, 1987Bivol et al, , 1988Dosba et al, 1992). Rankovic (1988) combined both methods by using chip budding of one tree and aphid inoculation of another tree, whereby a third tree served as a control.…”