“…Belonging to the Virgaviridae family and Tobamovirus genus, this pepper plant pathogen is transmitted via mechanical contact with contaminated soil and/or seed and causes fruit malformation and leaf mosaic in Capsicum species throughout Asia, Australia, Europe, Middle East, and North and South America (Adkins et al, 2001, Ahmad et al, 2015, Alonso et al, 1991, Beczner et al, 1997, Çağlar et al, 2013, Garcia-Luque et al, 1993, Genda et al, 2007, Han et al, 2017, Ichiki et al, 2009, Kaur et al, 2014, Milošević et al, 2015, Oliveira et al, 2010, Wang et al, 2006, Wetter et al, 1984, Yu et al, 2018). PMMoV has a 6,356 bp genome that encodes for a capsid, two replication-associated proteins (126 kDa and 183 kDa), and a cell-to-cell movement-associated protein (Banović Đeri et al, 2018, Oliveira et al, 2010). Given the limited genetic variability of PMMoV, it has been suggested that the PMMoV genome is highly stable (Rodriguez-Cerezo et al, 1989) and limited sequence variation has been observed among geographic regions (Yu et al, 2018).…”