Detection of plant viruses and disease management: Relevance of genetic diversity and evolution

L Rubio, L Galipienso, I Ferriol - Frontiers in plant science, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Plant viruses cause considerable economic losses and are a threat for sustainable
agriculture. The frequent emergence of new viral diseases is mainly due to international …

Pivoting the plant immune system from dissection to deployment

JL Dangl, DM Horvath, BJ Staskawicz - Science, 2013 - science.org
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

OX Dong, PC Ronald - Plant physiology, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Genetic Engineering for Disease Resistance in Plants: Recent Progress and Future
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Vector-borne bacterial plant pathogens: interactions with hemipteran insects and plants

LM Perilla-Henao, CL Casteel - Frontiers in plant science, 2016 - frontiersin.org
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 …

RNA silencing in plants: yesterday, today, and tomorrow

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: Rapidly Increasing Global Distribution, Etiology, Epidemiology, and Management

A Dombrovsky, LTT Tran-Nguyen… - Annual review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
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 …

Strategies for antiviral resistance in transgenic plants

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 …

Control of viruses infecting grapevine

VI Maliogka, GP Martelli, M Fuchs, NI Katis - Advances in Virus Research, 2015 - Elsevier
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 …

Cassava brown streak disease: a threat to food security in Africa

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 …

Transgenic resistance confers effective field level control of bacterial spot disease in tomato

DM Horvath, RE Stall, JB Jones, MH Pauly, GE Vallad… - 2012 - journals.plos.org
We investigated whether lines of transgenic tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) expressing the
Bs2 resistance gene from pepper, a close relative of tomato, demonstrate improved …