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 …

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

There is an urgent need for agricultural systems to intensify sustainably, increasing crop
productivity, farmer livelihoods and soil health while using fewer resources. Crop …

Rice tungro disease (RTD) is a serious constraint in rice production across tropical Asia.
RTD is caused by the interaction between Rice tungro spherical virus (RTSV) and Rice …

Genome-editing technologies offer unprecedented opportunities for crop improvement with
superior precision and speed. This review presents an analysis of the current state of …

Genetic resistance often fails because a resistance-breaking (RB) pathogen genotype
increases in frequency. On the basis of an analysis of cellular plant pathogens, it was …

This review addresses four principles on which sustainable pest management in rice is to be
grounded. The goal of modern pest management is to contribute to agricultural …

The brown planthopper (BPH) Nilaparvata lugens transmits both rice grassy stunt (RGSV)
and rice ragged stunt (RRSV) viruses in a persistent manner without transovarial passage …

An easy-to-use single reference source covering the full range of subject areas associated
with plant pathology! This comprehensive volume covers the entire field of plant pathology. It …

In some epidemics that have devastating consequences, the primary inoculum plays an
important role in both epidemic onset and intensification. This article documents the …