Disease pandemics and major epidemics arising from new encounters between indigenous viruses and introduced crops

RAC Jones - Viruses, 2020 - mdpi.com
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 …

Breeding potentials of Bambara groundnut for food and nutrition security in the face of climate change

OS Olanrewaju, O Oyatomi, OO Babalola… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Constant production of quality food should be a norm in any community, but climate change,
increasing population, and unavailability of land for farming affect food production. As a …

Application of Asymmetric Catalysis in Chiral Pesticide Active Molecule Synthesis

X Yang, S Jiang, Z Jin, T Li - Journal of Agricultural and Food …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The different configurations of chiral pesticides generally have significant influence on their
biological activities. Chiral agrochemicals with high optical purities have become a …

Viruses of cucurbit crops: Current status in the Mediterranean Region

N Radouane, S Ezrari, Z Belabess, A Tahiri… - Phytopathologia …, 2021 - torrossa.com
Cucurbits are among the most cultivated crops, and the most economically important
species are melon (Cucumis melo L.), cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.), watermelon (Citrullus …

An annotated list of legume-infecting viruses in the light of metagenomics

EK Chatzivassiliou - Plants, 2021 - mdpi.com
Legumes, one of the most important sources of human food and animal feed, are known to
be susceptible to a plethora of plant viruses. Many of these viruses cause diseases which …

Advances in breeding and biotechnology of legume crops

C Jacob, B Carrasco, AR Schwember - Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ …, 2016 - Springer
Legume crops are relevant globally to the feeding and the nutrition of humans and animals
because of their relatively high seed content of protein and essential amino acids …

RNAi-derived transgenic resistance to Mungbean yellow mosaic India virus in cowpea

S Kumar, B Tanti, BL Patil, SK Mukherjee, L Sahoo - PLoS One, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Cowpea is an important grain legume crop of Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia.
Leaf curl and golden mosaic diseases caused by Mungbean yellow mosaic India virus …

Geminivirus resistance: a minireview

K Beam, JT Ascencio-Ibáñez - Frontiers in plant science, 2020 - frontiersin.org
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 …

Five families of diverse DNA viruses comprehensively restructure the nucleus

Q Rosemarie, B Sugden - PLoS Biology, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Many viruses have evolved ways to restructure their host cell's nucleus profoundly and
unexpectedly upon infection. In particular, DNA viruses that need to commandeer their host's …

Metagenomic-based screening and molecular characterization of cowpea-infecting viruses in Burkina Faso

E Palanga, D Filloux, DP Martin, E Fernandez… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Cowpea,(Vigna unguiculata L.(Walp)) is an annual tropical grain legume. Often referred to
as “poor man's meat”, cowpea is one of the most important subsistence legumes cultivated …