Going viral: virus-based biological control agents for plant protection

J Wagemans, D Holtappels, E Vainio… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The most economically important biotic stresses in crop production are caused by fungi,
oomycetes, insects, viruses, and bacteria. Often chemical control is still the most commonly …

[HTML][HTML] The Bunyavirales: the plant-infecting counterparts

R Kormelink, J Verchot, X Tao, C Desbiez - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
Negative-strand (-) RNA viruses (NSVs) comprise a large and diverse group of viruses that
are generally divided in those with non-segmented and those with segmented genomes …

Virion-associated nucleic acid-based metagenomics: a decade of advances in molecular characterization of plant viruses

O Moubset, S François, F Maclot, E Palanga… - …, 2022 - Am Phytopath Society
Over the last decade, viral metagenomic studies have resulted in the discovery of thousands
of previously unknown viruses. These studies are likely to play a pivotal role in obtaining an …

[HTML][HTML] Soybean thrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) harbor highly diverse populations of arthropod, fungal and plant viruses

T Thekke-Veetil, D Lagos-Kutz, NK McCoppin… - Viruses, 2020 - mdpi.com
Soybean thrips (Neohydatothrips variabilis) are one of the most efficient vectors of soybean
vein necrosis virus, which can cause severe necrotic symptoms in sensitive soybean plants …

[HTML][HTML] Viromes of Monocotyledonous Weeds Growing in Crop Fields Reveal Infection by Several Viruses Suggesting Their Virus Reservoir Role

ZN Galbács, ED Agyemang, G Pásztor, AP Takács… - Plants, 2024 - mdpi.com
In 2019, random samples of Panicum miliaceum growing as a weed were surveyed to
uncover their virus infections at two locations in Hungary. This pilot study revealed infection …

Resolving deep evolutionary relationships within the RNA virus phylum Lenarviricota

S Sadiq, YM Chen, YZ Zhang, EC Holmes - Virus Evolution, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The RNA virus phylum Lenarviricota is composed of the fungi-associated families
Narnaviridae and Mitoviridae, the RNA bacteriophage Leviviridae, and the plant and fungi …

Molecular biology and structure of a novel penaeid shrimp densovirus elucidate convergent parvoviral host capsid evolution

JJ Pénzes, HT Pham, P Chipman… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - pnas.org
The giant tiger prawn (Penaeus monodon) is a decapod crustacean widely reared for
human consumption. Currently, viruses of two distinct lineages of parvoviruses (PVs, family …

A novel rice curl dwarf-associated picornavirus encodes a 3C serine protease recognizing uncommon EPT/S cleavage sites

T Zhang, C Li, M Cao, D Wang, Q Wang, Y **-pong-dependent piRNAs from Diaphorina citri densovirus
JC Nigg, YW Kuo, BW Falk - MBio, 2020 - journals.asm.org
Piwi-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) are a class of small RNAs primarily responsible for silencing
transposons in the animal germ line. The **-pong cycle, the posttranscriptional silencing …