Begomoviruses: what is the secret (s) of their success?

E Fiallo-Olivé, J Navas-Castillo - Trends in Plant Science, 2023 - cell.com
Begomoviruses constitute an extremely successful group of emerging plant viruses
transmitted by whiteflies of the Bemisia tabaci complex. Hosts include important vegetable …

CRISPR/Cas-mediated resistance against viruses in plants

ZA Khan, R Kumar, I Dasgupta - International Journal of Molecular …, 2022 - mdpi.com
CRISPR/Cas9 provides a robust and widely adaptable system with enormous potential for
genome editing directed towards generating useful products. It has been used extensively to …

Genomic variation and diversification in begomovirus genome in implication to host and vector adaptation

D Nigam - Plants, 2021 - mdpi.com
Begomoviruses (family Geminiviridae, genus Begomovirus) are DNA viruses transmitted in a
circulative, persistent manner by the whitefly Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius). As revealed by …

The invasion biology of tomato begomoviruses in Costa Rica reveals neutral synergism that may lead to increased disease pressure and economic loss

MR Maliano, MR Rojas, MA Macedo, N Barboza… - Virus research, 2022 - Elsevier
Since the late 1980s, tomato production in Costa Rica has been affected by diseases
caused by whitefly-transmitted begomoviruses. The first was tomato yellow mottle virus …

DNA primase large subunit is an essential plant gene for geminiviruses, putatively priming viral ss-DNA replication

L Siskos, M Antoniou, J Riado, M Enciso… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The family of Geminiviridae consists of more than 500 circular single-stranded (ss) DNA viral
species that can infect numerous dicot and monocot plants. Geminiviruses replicate their …

Molecular Signature of a Novel Alternanthera Yellow Vein Virus Variant Infecting the Ageratum conyzoides Weed in Oman

M Shafiq, G Ondrasek, AM Al-Sadi, MS Shahid - Viruses, 2023 - mdpi.com
Alternanthera yellow vein virus (AlYVV), a monopartite begomovirus, has been identified
infecting a diverse range of crops and native plants in Pakistan, India, and China. However …

Transreplication Preference of the Tomato Leaf Curl Joydebpur Virus for a Noncognate Betasatellite through Iteron Resemblance on Nicotiana bethamiana

TTB Vo, IGNP Wira Sanjaya, EJ Kil, A Lal, PT Ho… - Microorganisms, 2023 - mdpi.com
Pepper plants (Capsicum annuum) with severe leaf curl symptoms were collected in 2013
from Bangalore, Karnataka, India. The detection results showed a co-infection between the …

High-throughput sequencing identified distinct bipartite and monopartite begomovirus variants associated with DNA-satellites from tomato and muskmelon plants in …

KA AlHudaib, MI Almaghasla, SM El-Ganainy… - Plants, 2022 - mdpi.com
The studies on the prevalence and genetic diversity of begomoviruses in Saudi Arabia are
minimal. In this study, field-grown symptomatic tomato and muskmelon plants were …

Revealing the complexity of sweepovirus-deltasatellite–plant host interactions: expanded natural and experimental helper virus range and effect dependence on virus …

CG Ferro, FM Zerbini, J Navas-Castillo, E Fiallo-Olivé - Microorganisms, 2021 - mdpi.com
Sweepoviruses are begomoviruses (genus Begomovirus, family Geminiviridae) with ssDNA
genomes infecting sweet potato and other species of the family Convolvulaceae …

Seed and pollen transmission of tomato leaf curl New Delhi virus, tomato leaf curl Taiwan virus, and tomato yellow leaf curl Thailand virus in cucumbers and tomatoes

HH Chang, D Gustian, CJ Chang, FJ Jan - Plant Disease, 2023 - Am Phytopath Society
Understanding the seedborne nature of plant viruses is essential for develo** disease
control strategies and is impactful to the seed market. Here, we investigated seed …