Phloem transport of plant viruses is an essential step in the setting-up of a complete infection
of a host plant. After an initial replication step in the first cells, viruses spread from cell-to-cell …

Powdery mildew and rust fungi are major agricultural problems affecting many economically
important crops and causing significant yield losses. These fungi are obligate biotrophic …

Genome editing provides novel strategies for improving plant traits but mostly relies on
conventional plant genetic transformation and regeneration procedures, which can be …

The seminal text Plant Virology is now in its fifth edition. It has been 10 years since the
publication of the fourth edition, during which there has been an explosion of conceptual …

Barley stripe mosaic virus (BSMV) is a single-stranded RNA virus with three genome
components designated alpha, beta, and gamma. BSMV vectors have previously been …

Plant RNA virus‐based guide RNA (gRNA) delivery has substantial advantages compared
to that of the conventional constitutive promoter‐driven expression due to the rapid and …

Intercellular transport of viruses through cytoplasmic connections, termed plasmodesmata
(PD), is essential for systemic infection in plants by viruses. Previous genetic and …

Rust fungi are devastating plant pathogens and several Puccinia species have a large
economic impact on wheat production worldwide. Disease protection, mostly offered by …

Autophagy is a conserved defense strategy against viral infection. However, little is known
about the counterdefense strategies of plant viruses involving interference with autophagy …

Genome editing strategies in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) typically rely on Agrobacterium-
mediated genetic transformation for the delivery of required genetic reagents involving …