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The typical symptoms of vein clearing are believed to be associated with CYVCV infection in citrus, so virus-specific diagnostic systems are currently used to confirm infection. In the present study, virome analysis based on high-throughput sequencing (HTS) on a lemon plant showing YVCD revealed mixed infection of CYVCV, iris domestica betaflexyviridae 1 (IDBV), and hop stunt viroid (HSVd). This multiple infection was confirmed in other two lemon plants with similar symptoms using virus\/viroid specific primers. This is the first report of IDBV in lemon. Through molecular characterization and the reconstruction of phylogenetic relationships, a possible origin of the viruses\/viroid identified in lemon has been hypothesized. 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