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Cells, 2021 Cassava brown streak disease (CBSD) is a destructive disease of cassava in Eastern and Central Africa. Because there was no source of resistance in African varieties to provide complete protection against the viruses causing the disease, we searched in ...
Samar Sheat +2 more
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Global Dimensions of Plant Virus Diseases: Current Status and Future Perspectives.
Annual Review of Virology, 2019 Viral diseases provide a major challenge to twenty-first century agriculture worldwide. Climate change and human population pressures are driving rapid alterations in agricultural practices and cropping systems that favor destructive viral disease ...
Roger A. C. Jones, R. Naidu
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Molecular plant pathology, 2022 Tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV) is an emerging and rapidly spreading RNA virus that infects tomato and pepper, with tomato as the primary host. The virus causes severe crop losses and threatens tomato production worldwide.
Shaokang Zhang +4 more
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BMC Microbiology, 2023 Background Alfalfa mosaic virus (AMV) is an important virus affecting many vegetable crops in Egypt. In this study, virus isolates were collected from naturally infected potato, tomato, alfalfa and clover plants that showed suspected symptoms of AMV in ...
Hala A. Amin +3 more
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Plants, 2021 Most plant viruses rely on vector transmission for their spread and specific interactions between vector and virus have evolved to regulate this relationship. The whitefly Bemisia tabaci- transmitted cucumber vein yellowing virus (CVYV; genus Ipomovirus,
Svenja Lindenau +2 more
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Engineering plant virus resistance: from RNA silencing to genome editing strategies
Plant Biotechnology Journal, 2019 Summary Viral diseases severely affect crop yield and quality, thereby threatening global food security. Genetic improvement of plant virus resistance is essential for sustainable agriculture. In the last decades, several modern technologies were applied
Yaling Zhao +3 more
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Insect Bacterial Symbiont-Mediated Vitellogenin Uptake into Oocytes To Support Egg Development
mBio, 2020 Many insect species, such as aphids, leafhoppers, planthoppers, and whiteflies harbor obligate bacterial symbionts that can be transovarially transmitted to offspring through the oocytes of female insects.
Qianzhuo Mao +7 more
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Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest Control, 2023 Background Fire Blight, incited by Erwinia amylovora, is one of the most damaging pear and apple diseases in the world. Fire blight was introduced to Egypt in the 1960 and threatens the Egypt’s costs for pear industry.
Wessam Hassan +4 more
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Virus-induced gene complementation reveals a transcription factor network in modulation of tomato fruit ripening [PDF]
, 2012 Plant virus technology, in particular virus-induced gene silencing, is a widely used reverse- and forward-genetics tool in plant functional genomics. However the potential of virus technology to express genes to induce phenotypes or to complement mutants
Fan, Zaifeng +15 more
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Microbial Biotechnology, 2022 Summary Huanglongbing (HLB) is currently considered the most destructive disease of citrus worldwide. In the major citrus‐growing areas in Asia and the US, the major causal agent of HLB is the bacterial pathogen Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus (CLas ...
Qian Chen +5 more
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