“…This virus was reported for the first time in the 1960s in the USA, as CTLV, infecting "Meyer" lemmon [8] and, as ASGV, infecting apple [9][10][11]. Since then, ASGV has been reported to infect a wide range of hosts belonging to different plant families including other citrus species, pear, apricot, cherry, lily, bamboo, soybean, fava bean, and tomato and shown to be broadly distributed worldwide [7,12,13]. Recently, ASGV has also been found to infect loquat in China, another natural host of this viral species [2].…”