Global plant virus disease pandemics and epidemics

RAC Jones - Plants, 2021 - mdpi.com
The world's staple food crops, and other food crops that optimize human nutrition, suffer from
global virus disease pandemics and epidemics that greatly diminish their yields and/or …

Global dimensions of plant virus diseases: current status and future perspectives

RAC Jones, RA Naidu - Annual review of virology, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Viral diseases provide a major challenge to twenty-first century agriculture worldwide.
Climate change and human population pressures are driving rapid alterations in agricultural …

[HTML][HTML] A predictive machine learning application in agriculture: Cassava disease detection and classification with imbalanced dataset using convolutional neural …

G Sambasivam, GD Opiyo - Egyptian informatics journal, 2021 - Elsevier
This work is inspired by Kaggle competition which was part of the Fine-Grained Visual
Categorization workshop at CVPR 2019 (Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern …

The draft genome of whitefly Bemisia tabaci MEAM1, a global crop pest, provides novel insights into virus transmission, host adaptation, and insecticide resistance

W Chen, DK Hasegawa, N Kaur, A Kliot, PV Pinheiro… - BMC biology, 2016 - Springer
Abstract Background The whitefly Bemisia tabaci (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) is among the
100 worst invasive species in the world. As one of the most important crop pests and virus …

Role of the Insect Supervectors Bemisia tabaci and Frankliniella occidentalis in the Emergence and Global Spread of Plant Viruses

RL Gilbertson, O Batuman, CG Webster… - Annual review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Emergence of insect-transmitted plant viruses over the past 10–20 years has been
disproportionately driven by two so-called supervectors: the whitefly, Bemisia tabaci, and the …

Environmental impacts and constraints associated with the production of major food crops in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia

TW Reynolds, SR Waddington, CL Anderson, A Chew… - Food Security, 2015 - Springer
Many environmental factors constrain the production of major food crops in Sub-Saharan
Africa and South Asia. At the same time, these food production systems themselves have a …

World management of geminiviruses

MR Rojas, MA Macedo, MR Maliano… - Annual review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Management of geminiviruses is a worldwide challenge because of the widespread
distribution of economically important diseases caused by these viruses. Regardless of the …

Cassava virus diseases: biology, epidemiology, and management

JP Legg, PL Kumar, T Makeshkumar, L Tripathi… - Advances in virus …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz.) is the most important vegetatively propagated
food staple in Africa and a prominent industrial crop in Latin America and Asia. Its vegetative …

Adoption and promotion of resilient crops for climate risk mitigation and import substitution: A case analysis of cassava for South African agriculture

AB Amelework, MW Bairu, O Maema… - … in Sustainable Food …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Cassava is an important starchy root crop grown globally in tropical and subtropical regions.
The ability of cassava to withstand difficult growing conditions and long-term storability …

Disease pandemics and major epidemics arising from new encounters between indigenous viruses and introduced crops

RAC Jones - Viruses, 2020 - mdpi.com
Virus disease pandemics and epidemics that occur in the world's staple food crops pose a
major threat to global food security, especially in developing countries with tropical or …