The world's staple food crops, and other food crops that optimize human nutrition, suffer from
global virus disease pandemics and epidemics that greatly diminish their yields and/or …

Viral diseases provide a major challenge to twenty-first century agriculture worldwide.
Climate change and human population pressures are driving rapid alterations in agricultural …

The transmission of insect-borne plant pathogens, including viruses, bacteria,
phytoplasmas, and fungi depends upon the abundance and behavior of their vectors. These …

The pathological importance of mixed viral infections in plants might be underestimated
except for a few well-characterized synergistic combinations in certain crops. Considering …

Abstract Changes in global climate driven by anthropogenic activities, especially the burning
of fossil fuels and deforestation, have been progressively increasing and are projected to …

The ecology of plant viruses began to be explored at the end of the 19th century. Since then,
major advances have revealed mechanisms of virus-host-vector interactions in various …

Virus disease pandemics and epidemics that occur in the world's staple food crops pose a
major threat to global food security, especially in developing countries with tropical or …

Abstract Knowledge of how climate change is likely to influence future virus disease
epidemics in cultivated plants and natural vegetation is of great importance to both global …

Cucumber green mottle mosaic virus (CGMMV) was first described in 1935 infecting
cucumber, making it one of the first plant viruses to be studied. Its initial distribution occurred …

Abstract Potyviruses (genus Potyvirus; family Potyviridae) are widely distributed and
represent one of the most economically important genera of plant viruses. Therefore, their …