Eukaryotic circular rep-encoding single-stranded DNA (CRESS DNA) viruses: ubiquitous viruses with small genomes and a diverse host range

L Zhao, K Rosario, M Breitbart, S Duffy - Advances in virus research, 2019 - Elsevier
While single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) was once thought to be a relatively rare genomic
architecture for viruses, modern metagenomics sequencing has revealed circular ssDNA …

World management of geminiviruses

MR Rojas, MA Macedo, MR Maliano… - Annual review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Management of geminiviruses is a worldwide challenge because of the widespread
distribution of economically important diseases caused by these viruses. Regardless of the …

[PDF][PDF] The economic costs of biological invasions in Brazil: a first assessment

JRP Adelino, G Heringer, C Diagne, F Courchamp… - …, 2021 - neobiota.pensoft.net
Biological invasions are one of the leading causes of global environmental change and their
impacts can affect biodiversity, ecosystem services, human health and the economy. Yet, the …

Major soilborne pathogens of field processing tomatoes and management strategies

M Ma, PWJ Taylor, D Chen, N Vaghefi, JZ He - Microorganisms, 2023 - mdpi.com
Globally, tomato is the second most cultivated vegetable crop next to potato, preferentially
grown in temperate climates. Processing tomatoes are generally produced in field …

Disease pandemics and major epidemics arising from new encounters between indigenous viruses and introduced crops

RAC Jones - Viruses, 2020 - mdpi.com
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 …

CRISPR-Cas9-Based Genome Editing in the Silverleaf Whitefly (Bemisia tabaci)

CC Heu, FM McCullough, J Luan, JL Rasgon - The CRISPR journal, 2020 - liebertpub.com
Bemisia tabaci cryptic species Middle East-Asia Minor I (MEAM1) is a serious agricultural
polyphagous insect pest and vector of numerous plant viruses, causing major worldwide …

Life on the edge: geminiviruses at the interface between crops and wild plant hosts

F García-Arenal, FM Zerbini - Annual Review of Virology, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Viruses constitute the largest group of emerging pathogens, and geminiviruses (plant
viruses with circular, single-stranded DNA genomes) are the major group of emerging plant …

A recessive gene pepy-1 encoding Pelota confers resistance to begomovirus isolates of PepYLCIV and PepYLCAV in Capsicum annuum

S Koeda, M Onouchi, N Mori, NS Pohan… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2021 - Springer
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 …

Risk of spread of tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) in tomato crops under various climate change scenarios

RS Ramos, L Kumar, F Shabani, MC Picanço - Agricultural Systems, 2019 - Elsevier
Species distribution models (SDMs) are valuable for the information they provide to reduce
the potential negative effects of climatic factors on agricultural production systems. Such …

Distribution and phylogenetics of whiteflies and their endosymbiont relationships after the Mediterranean species invasion in Brazil

LA de Moraes, C Muller, RCOF Bueno, A Santos… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
The Bemisia tabaci is a polyphagous insect and a successful vector of plant viruses. B.
tabaci is a species complex and in Brazil native species from the New World (NW) group, as …