Global plant virus disease pandemics and epidemics

RAC Jones - Plants, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
The world's staple food crops, and other food crops that optimize human nutrition, suffer from
global virus disease pandemics and epidemics that greatly diminish their yields and/or …

Important wheat diseases in the US and their management in the 21st century

J Singh, B Chhabra, A Raza, SH Yang… - Frontiers in plant …, 2023‏ - frontiersin.org
Wheat is a crop of historical significance, as it marks the turning point of human civilization
10,000 years ago with its domestication. Due to the rapid increase in population, wheat …

An overview of the environmental risks posed by neonicotinoid insecticides

D Goulson - Journal of applied Ecology, 2013‏ - Wiley Online Library
Neonicotinoids are now the most widely used insecticides in the world. They act
systemically, travelling through plant tissues and protecting all parts of the crop, and are …

Yellow dwarf viruses of cereals: taxonomy and molecular mechanisms

WA Miller, Z Lozier - Annual Review of Phytopathology, 2022‏ - annualreviews.org
Yellow dwarf viruses are the most economically important and widespread viruses of cereal
crops. Although they share common biological properties such as phloem limitation and …

Variability in harvest index of grain crops and potential significance for carbon accounting: examples from Australian agriculture

M Unkovich, J Baldock, M Forbes - Advances in agronomy, 2010‏ - Elsevier
For grain crops, harvest index (HI) is the ratio of harvested grain to total shoot dry matter, and
this can be used as a measure of reproductive efficiency. The index can also be used to …

The influence of virus-induced changes in plants on aphid vectors: insights from luteovirus pathosystems

NA Bosque-Pérez, SD Eigenbrode - Virus research, 2011‏ - Elsevier
Plant virus infection can alter the suitability of host plants for their aphid vectors. Most reports
indicate that virus-infected plants are superior hosts for vectors compared to virus-free plants …

Influence of climate change on plant disease infections and epidemics caused by viruses and bacteria.

RAC Jones, MJ Barbetti - CABI Reviews, 2012‏ - cabidigitallibrary.org
This review is motivated by (i) the magnitude of the threat to world food security and diversity
of natural vegetation posed by viral and bacterial pathogens of plants at a time of …

Using epidemiological information to develop effective integrated virus disease management strategies

RAC Jones - Virus Research, 2004‏ - Elsevier
Virus diseases cause serious losses in yield and quality of cultivated plants worldwide.
These losses and the resulting financial damage can be limited by controlling epidemics …

Population biology of plant pathogens: the synthesis of plant disease epidemiology and population genetics

MG Milgroom, TL Peever - Plant disease, 2003‏ - Am Phytopath Society
It is no secret that much of the effort in plant pathology has shifted over the last 50 years from
practical problem-solving to studies of more specialized academic interest (74, 81). Our …

Virus disease in wheat predicted to increase with a changing climate

P Trębicki, N Nancarrow, E Cole… - Global change …, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
Current atmospheric CO2 levels are about 400 μmol mol− 1 and are predicted to rise to 650
μmol mol− 1 later this century. Although the positive and negative impacts of CO2 on plants …