[3] Peach latent mosaic viroid is a 336-351nt circular RNA which has a branched formation.

[4] Before the development of symptoms the disease is latent in peach trees for approximately 5–7 years.

[5] The symptoms of the disease include necrosis of buds, delayed shoot development, necrotic branches, premature ageing of trees, flower streaking, ripening deformations, enlarged rounded stones, circular discoloured areas on the fruit skin and in some cases mosaic, blotch, vein banding or calico appearance on infected leaves.

[5] Peach latent mosaic viroid is horizontally spread from plant to plant across a field by propagation of infected buds, pruning tools and green peach aphids.

[3] Vertical transmission of peach latent mosaic viroid through seeds can not occur.