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 …

Plant diseases caused by viruses share many common features with those caused by other
pathogen taxa in terms of the host–pathogen interaction, but there are also distinctive …

Many farmers in South and Southeast Asia describe rice tungro disease as a cancer disease
because of the severe damage it causes and the difficulty of controlling it (121). As the most …

Plant viruses are an important constraint to crop production world‐wide. Rarely have plant
virologists, vector entomologists and crop specialists worked together in search of …

Viral diseases are a key constraint in the production of staple food crops in lesser developed
countries. New and improved disease control methods are developed and implemented …

Maize lethal necrosis (MLN) has emerged as a serious threat to food security in sub-
Saharan Africa. MLN is caused by coinfection with two viruses, Maize chlorotic mottle virus …

In this paper plant disease models including impulsive cultural control strategies were
developed and analyzed. The sufficient conditions under which the infected plant free …

Predicting epidemics of plant virus disease constitutes a challenging undertaking due to the
complexity of the three-cornered pathosystems (virus, vector, and host) involved and their …

A revised and updated version of the 2001 publication of the same name, this book is
divided into 3 sections on the virus, the cell and the plant (7 chapters), the virus in the …

Taking into account of both white and colored noises, a stochastic mathematical model with
impulsive toxicant input is formulated. Based on this model, we investigate dynamics, such …