Potato, the world's most popular crop is reported to provide a food source for nearly a billion
people. It is prone to a number of biotic stressors that affect yield and quality, out of which …

Age‐related resistance to microbe invasion is a commonly accepted concept in plant
pathology. However, the impact of such age‐dependent interactive phenomena is perhaps …

The advances in high-throughput sequencing (HTS) technologies and bioinformatic tools
have provided new opportunities for virus and viroid discovery and diagnostics. Hence, new …

Accurate determination of disease causation is essential for understanding the
epidemiology of diseases, enabling effective management decisions and risk assessment …

Potato virus Y (PVY) has emerged as the main reason for potato seed lot rejections,
seriously affecting seed potato production in the United States throughout the past 20 years …

The aims of this study were: i) to investigate mature plant resistance (MPR) against four
strains of Potato virus Y (PVY O, PVY N, PVY NTN and PVY N− Wi) in potato cultivars that …

The United States potato industry has recently experienced a strain shift; recombinant potato
virus Y (PVY) strains (eg, PVYNTN) have emerged as the predominant strains over the long …

Modern data analysis typically involves the fitting of a statistical model to data, which
includes estimating the model parameters and their precision (standard errors) and testing …

Potyviruses form a large and widespread group of plant viruses. The positive sense (+) RNA
genome of potyviruses has evolved to infect a wide variety of both cultivated and wild plants …

The San Luis Valley (SLV), Colorado, is the second-largest fresh-potato-growing region in
the United States, which accounts for about 95% of the total production in Colorado. Potato …