Strawberry chlorotic fleck-associated virus (SCFaV) is one of four closteroviruses discovered
in strawberry plants affected by chlorotic fleck, an aphid-transmitted disease (Fulton, 1987).
The virus was first reported from Oregon by Tzanetakis and Martin (2007), who have
sequenced its genome and discussed the phylogenetic relationships with other members of the
family Closteroviridae. The virus isolate in question came from a strawberry clone (CFRA
9018) kept in collection for more than 40 years and was propagated vegetatively with it.
Raspberry leaf mottle virus (RLMV) is one of the four or more viruses involved in raspberry
mosaic disease (Converse, 1987). This virus was first isolated by Tzanetakis et al. (2007) in
Oregon in the raspberry accession Glen Clova #8 (GC-8) of Scottish origin, then in a red
raspberry plantation in Washington. These authors have sequenced the viral genome (which
they termed raspberry mottle virus) and discussed phylogenetic relationships with other
members of the family Closteroviridae. The majority of the study group (11/14) agrees with the
use of the older name raspberry leaf mottle virus for the species as suggested by McGavin and
MacFarlane (2010).