Diverse and rapidly evolving pathogens cause plant diseases and epidemics that threaten crop yield and food security around the world. Research over the last 25 years has led to an …
Genetic Engineering for Disease Resistance in Plants: Recent Progress and Future Perspectives | Plant Physiology | Oxford Academic Skip to Main Content Advertisement …
Hemipteran insects are devastating pests of crops due to their wide host range, rapid reproduction, and ability to transmit numerous plant-infecting pathogens as vectors. While …
A Eamens, MB Wang, NA Smith… - Plant physiology, 2008 - academic.oup.com
RNA silencing has become a major focus of molecular biology and biomedical research around the world. This is highlighted by a simple PubMed search for ''RNA silencing,''which …
Cucumber green mottle mosaic virus (CGMMV) was first described in 1935 infecting cucumber, making it one of the first plant viruses to be studied. Its initial distribution occurred …
M Prins, M Laimer, E Noris, J Schubert… - Molecular plant …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Genetic engineering offers a means of incorporating new virus resistance traits into existing desirable plant cultivars. The initial attempts to create transgenes conferring virus resistance …
Grapevine is a high value vegetatively propagated fruit crop that suffers from numerous viruses, including some that seriously affect the profitability of vineyards. Nowadays, 64 …
BL Patil, JP Legg, E Kanju… - Journal of General …, 2015 - microbiologyresearch.org
Cassava brown streak disease (CBSD) has emerged as the most important viral disease of cassava (Manihot esculenta) in Africa and is a major threat to food security. CBSD is caused …
We investigated whether lines of transgenic tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) expressing the Bs2 resistance gene from pepper, a close relative of tomato, demonstrate improved …