RNA interference (RNAi)-based antiviral defense generates small interfering RNAs that
represent the entire genome sequences of both RNA and DNA viruses as well as viroids …

Plant viral diseases constitute a major contributor to agricultural production losses,
significantly impacting the economies of exporting countries by more than USD 30 billion …

Recent developments in high-throughput sequencing (HTS), also called next-generation
sequencing (NGS), technologies and bioinformatics have drastically changed research on …

Viruses have compact genomes and usually translate more than one protein from
polycistronic RNAs using leaky scanning, frameshifting, stop codon suppression or …

In most eukaryotes, small RNA (sRNA) molecules such as miRNAs, siRNAs and piRNAs
regulate gene expression and repress transposons and viruses. AGO/PIWI family proteins …

Autonomously replicating alphasatellites (family Alphasatellitidae) are frequently associated
with plant single-stranded (ss) DNA viruses of the families Geminiviridae, Metaxyviridae, and …

In plants, RNA silencing–based antiviral defense generates viral small RNAs (sRNAs)
faithfully representing the viral genomes. We employed sRNA sequencing and …

RNA silencing is an antiviral immunity that regulates gene expression through the
production of small RNAs (sRNAs). In this study, deep sequencing of small RNAs was used …

Small interfering RNA (siRNA)-directed gene silencing plays a major role in antiviral
defense. Virus-derived siRNAs inhibit viral replication in infected cells and potentially move …

This chapter describes viral diseases of banana (Musa and Ensete), providing information
on their economic impact, distribution, history, symptoms, causal agent, disease cycle and …