Cherry virus A (CVA) is a filamentous single-stranded RNA virus commonly found in Prunus spp. worldwide. In this study, we وscreened several cherry producing regions for the presence of CVA by RT-PCR and it detected only in two samples among 62 tested samples (3.2%) collected from Kahramanmaras province. Turkish CVA isolates shared 99.88% nucleotide sequence identity with isolate 3137 (KY510906) from Canada which grouped together in phylogenetic tree. To the best of our knowledge, this report confirmed the first occurrence of CVA in Prunus avium in Turkiye, increasing insight into the geographicaldistribution and genetic diversity of the virus.
