Abstract:Tobacco ringspot virus (TRSV) and Tomato ringspot virus (ToRSV) are quarantine pests. For the detection of these two viruses, we adopted Trizol for total RNA extraction and developed a semi-nested RT-PCR method with its specific primers, which designed on the basis of the coding genes of TRSV and ToRSV coat protein, respectively. Products of TRSV by RT-PCR and semi-nested PCR were 359bp and 206bp, that of ToRSV were 340bp and 219bp. Sequencing of the semi-nested RT-PCR products of TRSV and ToRSV indicated that their identities with the TRSV and ToRSV coat protein genes were 88%-97% and 96%-100%, respectively. Further study showed that the detection limits of DAS-ELISA and RT-PCR methods were about the same, but 103 times lower than that of the semi-nested RT-PCR at least.