Plant viruses are responsible for the most devastating and commercially significant plant
diseases, especially in tropical and subtropical regions. The genus begomovirus is the …

Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) is widely grown in the tropics but production is subject to
high losses from diseases. AVRDC—The World Vegetable Center initiated a program to …

Abstract Tomato leaf curl New Delhi virus (ToLCNDV), a bipartite begomovirus, was first
reported to infect tomato and has recently spread rapidly as an emerging disease to …

Key message A begomovirus resistance gene pepy-1, which encodes the messenger RNA
surveillance factor Pelota, was identified in pepper (C. annuum) through map-based cloning …

Over the past three decades diseases caused by whitefly-transmitted geminiviruses
(begomoviruses) have emerged to be important constraints to the production of solanaceous …

Plant viruses with densely packed genomes employ noncanonical translational strategies to
increase the coding capacity for viral function. However, the diverse translational strategies …

Plants are often simultaneously exposed to diverse environmental stresses, and can tune
suitable responses to them through hormones. Salicylic acid (SA) and jasmonic acid (JA) …

Abstract The whitefly Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) is one of the most threatening pests to
crop production in tropical and subtropical regions. Severe damage results from its effective …

A visual DNA diagnosis with a rapid and simple procedure has been developed on
integrating recombinase polymerase amplification (RPA) and a gold nanoparticle (AuNP) …

Tomato (yellow) leaf curl disease (TYLCD) is a serious threat to tomato production in the
tropics and subtropics. The genetics of resistance to Tomato yellow leaf curl Thailand virus …