All cellular life forms are afflicted by diverse genetic parasites, including viruses and other
types of mobile genetic elements (MGEs), and have evolved multiple, diverse defence …

Virus disease pandemics and epidemics that occur in the world's staple food crops pose a
major threat to global food security, especially in developing countries with tropical or …

Abstract Cassava (Manihot esculenta. Crantz) is a starch‐rich, woody tuberous, root crop
important for food, with little being done to investigate its potential as a bioenergy crop …

Cassava is the fourth largest source of calories in the world but is subject to economically
important yield losses due to viral diseases, including cassava brown streak disease and …

Abstract Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) is one of the most important root staple crops
in Zambia. An estimated 30% of Zambians, over 4 million people, consume cassava as part …

Cassava (Manihot esculenta) is one of the most important sources of dietary calories in the
tropics, playing a central role in food and economic security for smallholder farmers …

A continuing challenge to crop production worldwide is the spectrum of diseases caused by
geminiviruses, a large family of small circular single-stranded DNA viruses. These viruses …

The ability of begomoviruses to evolve rapidly threatens many crops and underscores the
importance of detecting these viruses quickly and to understand their genome diversity. This …

Cassava mosaic disease (CMD) represents a serious threat to cassava, a major root crop for
more than 300 million Africans. CMD is caused by single-stranded DNA begomoviruses that …

Cassava is one of the most important food and industrial crops in Asia, Africa, and South
America. Cassava mosaic disease (CMD), caused by cassava mosaic geminivirus, is one of …