Viruses cause epidemics on all major cultures of agronomic importance, representing a
serious threat to global food security. As strict intracellular pathogens, they cannot be …

A vast number of plant pathogens from viroids of a few hundred nucleotides to higher plants
cause diseases in our crops. Their effects range from mild symptoms to catastrophes in …

Cassava is the third largest source of carbohydrates for human food in the world but is
vulnerable to virus diseases, which threaten to destabilize food security in sub-Saharan …

One-hundred and fourteen virus species are transmitted by whiteflies (family Aleyrodidae).
Bemisia tabaci transmits 111 of these species while Trialeurodes vaporariorum and T …

Bemisia tabaci was described over 100 years ago and has since become one of the most
important pests worldwide in subtropical and tropical agriculture as well as in greenhouse …

Geminiviruses form the second largest family of plant viruses, the Geminiviridae,
represented by four genera: Mastrevirus, Curtovirus, Topocuvirus and Begomovirus. During …

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 …

While seed‐propagated crops have contributed many evolutionary insights, evolutionary
biologists have often neglected clonally propagated crops. We argue that widespread …

The rapid geographical expansion of the cassava mosaic disease (CMD) pandemic, caused
by cassava mosaic geminiviruses, has devastated cassava crops in 12 countries of East and …

Begomoviruses (Family Geminiviridae, Genus Begomovirus) have become the most
destructive group of plant viruses in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. The recent …