Viral diseases provide a major challenge to twenty-first century agriculture worldwide.
Climate change and human population pressures are driving rapid alterations in agricultural …

In this review, after giving some figures on the economic impact of aphids on agricultural
production, we describe the different mechanisms leading to yield losses (direct damage …

Genome editing in plants has been boosted tremendously by the development of
CRISPR/Cas9 (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) technology …

All components of the rhizosphere can be engineered to promote plant health and growth,
two features that strongly depend upon the interactions of living organisms with their …

The most represented group of resistance genes are those of the nucleotide binding site–
leucine-rich repeat (NBS-LRR) class. These genes are very numerous in the plant genome …

Phloem transport of plant viruses is an essential step in the setting-up of a complete infection
of a host plant. After an initial replication step in the first cells, viruses spread from cell-to-cell …

Large losses before crop harvesting are caused by plant pathogens, such as viruses,
bacteria, oomycetes, fungi, and nematodes. Among these, fungi are the major cause of …

The cap‐binding protein eIF4E, through its interaction with eIF4G, constitutes the core of the
eIF4F complex, which plays a key role in the circularization of mRNAs and their subsequent …

Plant viruses cause devastating diseases in many agriculture systems, being a serious
threat for the provision of adequate nourishment to a continuous growing population. At the …

Knowledge about the host range and genetic structure of emerging plant viruses provides
insights into fundamental ecological and evolutionary processes, and from an applied …