Molecular biology of potyviruses

F Revers, JA García - Advances in virus research, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Potyvirus is the largest genus of plant viruses causing significant losses in a wide range of
crops. Potyviruses are aphid transmitted in a nonpersistent manner and some of them are …

Source-to-sink transport of sugar and regulation by environmental factors

R Lemoine, SL Camera, R Atanassova… - Frontiers in plant …, 2013‏ - frontiersin.org
Source-to-sink transport of sugar is one of the major determinants of plant growth and relies
on the efficient and controlled distribution of sucrose (and some other sugars such as …

Plant defense against aphids, the pest extraordinaire

V Nalam, J Louis, J Shah - Plant Science, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Aphids are amongst the most damaging pests of plants that use their stylets to penetrate the
plant tissue to consume large amounts of phloem sap and thus deprive the plant of …

Maize lethal necrosis (MLN), an emerging threat to maize-based food security in sub-Saharan Africa

G Mahuku, BE Lockhart, B Wanjala… - …, 2015‏ - Am Phytopath Society
In sub-Saharan Africa, maize is a staple food and key determinant of food security for
smallholder farming communities. Pest and disease outbreaks are key constraints to maize …

Facilitative and antagonistic interactions between plant viruses in mixed infections

J Syller - Molecular plant pathology, 2012‏ - Wiley Online Library
Mixed infections of plant viruses are common in nature, and a number of important virus
diseases of plants are the outcomes of interactions between causative agents. Multiple …

Transmission mechanisms shape pathogen effects on host–vector interactions: evidence from plant viruses

K Mauck, NA Bosque‐Pérez, SD Eigenbrode… - Functional …, 2012‏ - Wiley Online Library
Vector‐borne pathogens and parasites can induce changes in the phenotypes of their hosts
that influence the frequency and nature of host–vector interactions and hence transmission …

[HTML][HTML] RNA interference: promising approach to combat plant viruses

S Akbar, Y Wei, MQ Zhang - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
Plant viruses are devastating plant pathogens that severely affect crop yield and quality.
Plants have developed multiple lines of defense systems to combat viral infection. Gene …

The epidemiology of plant virus disease: Towards a new synthesis

MJ Jeger - Plants, 2020‏ - mdpi.com
Epidemiology is the science of how disease develops in populations, with applications in
human, animal and plant diseases. For plant diseases, epidemiology has developed as a …

Localizing viruses in their insect vectors

S Blanc, M Drucker, M Uzest - Annual review of phytopathology, 2014‏ - annualreviews.org
The mechanisms and impacts of the transmission of plant viruses by insect vectors have
been studied for more than a century. The virus route within the insect vector is amply …

Insecticidal activity of plant-derived extracts against different economically important pest insects

S Khan, CNT Taning, E Bonneure, S Mangelinckx… - Phytoparasitica, 2017‏ - Springer
With the aim of selecting potential botanical insecticides, seven plant extracts (Daphne
mucronata (Family: Thymelaeaceae), Tagetes minuta (Asteraceae), Calotropis procera …