Current and emerging trends in techniques for plant pathogen detection

M Venbrux, S Crauwels, H Rediers - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Plant pathogenic microorganisms cause substantial yield losses in several economically
important crops, resulting in economic and social adversity. The spread of such plant …

Metagenomics: An effective approach for exploring microbial diversity and functions

NN Nam, HDK Do, KT Loan Trinh, NY Lee - Foods, 2023 - mdpi.com
Various fields have been identified in the “omics” era, such as genomics, proteomics,
transcriptomics, metabolomics, phenomics, and metagenomics. Among these …

Umbravirus-like RNA viruses are capable of independent systemic plant infection in the absence of encoded movement proteins

X Ying, S Bera, J Liu, R Toscano-Morales, C Jang… - Plos …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
The signature feature of all plant viruses is the encoding of movement proteins (MPs) that
supports the movement of the viral genome into adjacent cells and through the vascular …

Dimerization of an umbravirus RNA genome activates subgenomic mRNA transcription

T Chkuaseli, KA White - Nucleic Acids Research, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Many eukaryotic RNA viruses transcribe subgenomic (sg) mRNAs during infections to
control expression of a subset of viral genes. Such transcriptional events are commonly …

Sampling and analysis of the maize microbiome

JG Wallace, A Favela, S Raglin - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2024 - cshprotocols.cshlp.org
Maize is an important plant for both global food security and genetics research. As the
importance of microorganisms to plant health is becoming clearer, there is a growing interest …

-1 Programmed ribosomal frameshifting in Class 2 umbravirus-like RNAs uses multiple long-distance interactions to shift between active and inactive structures and …

AA Mikkelsen, F Gao, E Carino, S Bera… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Plus-strand RNA viruses frequently employ-1 programmed ribosomal frameshifting (-1 PRF)
to maximize their coding capacity. Ribosomes can frameshift at a slippery sequence if …

Exploring cereal metagenomics: unravelling microbial communities for improved food security

K Masenya, MC Manganyi, TB Dikobe - Microorganisms, 2024 - mdpi.com
Food security is an urgent global challenge, with cereals playing a crucial role in meeting
the nutritional requirements of populations worldwide. In recent years, the field of …

Grapevine Virome of the Don Ampelographic Collection in Russia Has Concealed Five Novel Viruses

D Belkina, D Karpova, E Porotikova, I Lifanov… - Viruses, 2023 - mdpi.com
In this study, an analysis of the virome of 51 grapevines from the Don ampelographic
collection named after Ya. I. Potapenko (Russia) was performed using high-throughput …

New technologies provide innovative opportunities to enhance understanding of major virus diseases threatening global food security

JF Kreuze, WJ Cuellar, PL Kumar… - …, 2023 - Am Phytopath Society
Plant viruses pose a continuous and serious threat to crop production worldwide, and
globalization and climate change are exacerbating the establishment and rapid spread of …

A proposed new Tombusviridae genus featuring extremely long 5' untranslated regions and a luteo/polerovirus-like gene block

Z Lozier, L Hill, E Semmann, WA Miller - Frontiers in Virology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Tombusviridae is a large family of single-stranded, positive-sense RNA plant viruses with
uncapped, non-polyadenylated genomes encoding 4–7 open reading frames (ORFs) …