“…Differentiation of SCMV and SrMV strains was possible using reverse transcriptase‐polymerase chain reaction (RT‐PCR)‐based restriction fragment length polymorphism (Yang & Mirkov, ). Since then, the diversity of many isolates/strains of SCMV or SrMV that infect sugarcane has been investigated on the basis of the NIb or CP sequences in Australia (Handley et al , ), USA and Southern Africa (Handley et al , ), Mexico (Espejel et al , ), Brazil (Gonçalves et al , ), Argentina (Perera et al , ), Cameroon and Congo (Alegria et al , ), Thailand (Gemechu et al , ), India (Viswanathan et al , ), China (Xu et al , ; Wang et al , ; Zhang et al , ), Vietnam (Ha et al , ) and Pakistan (Haider et al , ).…”