Still new to the whole fig growing process but definitely hooked thanks the forum! :)

I was wondering does FMV get transmitted to tomatoes or cucumber plants or other veggies?  Or is it just a fig specific virus?

Thanks!!:)
Eun

Thats a very good question but i cannot answer.
I do know many vegtables like lettuce, tomatoes, cauliflower, potatoes,peppers tobacco plants, can have a mosaic virus. FmV is fig mosaic virus and the vegtables and tobacco instead of Fmv has different letters but it is a mosaic virus and symptoms are similar if not the same and greatly efftects the crop of those plants from some of the readings i have ran across i just never gave that much thought as i was interested more about FmV in fig plants and not the veggies.
Oh also some flowers as well can have the mosaic virus .

i don't think the virus itself has actually been isolated, so we don't know that much about it, other than the symptoms in figs.

Eun, i just came across this article
http://www.springerlink.com/content/8ln5whunhpgwa8dd/

maybe it can go from one to another, in fig plants it can be transmitted by a type of aphid and they stated they in that article a strain of cucumber mosaic virus (CmV) was isolated from an amazon Lilly type of flower.
Interesting that it may be able to go into another type of plant and i think that in time pandoras box gets more open.

Thanks guys!  I was just curious bc I think one of my figlets has signs of FMV and it's in a pot on the deck with all my tomato and cucumber plants and was wondering if I need to isolate that figlet if it was transmitted to others.

i think the best defense against fmv is just to give your plants the best possible growing conditions.  i bought a plant advertised with fmv on ebay.  today that sucker is a fast growing monster. :).