Symptoms vary, and can include line patterns, ringspots, and mottle.
It is spread by propagating from infected plants, and can be brought under control with a good indexing program. In apple, ApMV causes a variety of leaf symptoms and reductions in fruit yield of varying severity. In apple, this virus is spread mainly by grafting to infected rootstocks. ApMV also occurs in hops, birch and plum. It is difficult to transmit mechanically from woody to herbaceous hosts, but is easily transmitted by sap among herbaceous plants.