Abstract:Satsuma dwarf virus(SDV) is an important citrus virus mainly occurred in Japan and other Asian countries. Generally most hosts carry the virus without symptom. To facilitate efficiently detecting SDV, especially from the symptomless hosts, new diagnostic methods are in demand. In this study, the total RNAs or total nucleic acids extracted from the tissue of citrus infected with SDV were used as template. The primers were specifically designed and selected. The reaction system of reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) has been set up and optimized. A target band of 251 bp was obtained, which has 99.6% of sequence homology compared with the sequence reported by Iwanami in Japan. The sensitivity of RT-PCR system for SDV in this study is 100 ng. Tissues of young leaf, matured leaf, young bark, matured bark are available for detection of SDV throughout the year.