[3] Infections are a significant agricultural burden, resulting in decreased yield and quality of crops.

[4] RBDV has a synergistic relation with Raspberry leaf mottle virus, with co-infection greatly amplifying the concentration of virions in infected plants.

RNA-1 is 5,449 nucleotides in length and contains one open reading frame (ORF) that encodes for a combined protein that has methyltransferase, helicase, and an RNA-dependent RNA polymerase domains.

[12] Single-step reverse transcription polymerase chain reactions has been developed to detect RBDV.

[13] By including reverse transcriptase and DNA polymerase in the whole process, the procedure can be conducted in a single step.