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

Plant viruses cause significant losses in agricultural crops worldwide, affecting the yield and
quality of agricultural products. The emergence of novel viruses or variants through genetic …

In this review, encouraged by the dictum of Theodosius Dobzhansky that “Nothing in biology
makes sense except in the light of evolution”, we outline the likely evolutionary pathways …

The breeding of tropical fruit trees for improving fruit traits is complicated, due to the long
juvenile phase, generation cycle, parthenocarpy, polyploidy, polyembryony, heterozygosity …

After clarifying the relationship between the closely related concepts of ecology and
epidemiology as they are used in plant virology, this article provides a historical perspective …

Recently diverged species may form complexes of morphologically similar, yet genetically
distinct lineages that occur in overlapping geographic ranges and niches. Using a multilocus …

Genetic engineering based on Agrobacterium-mediated transformation has been a
desirable tool to manipulate single or multiple genes of existing genotypes of woody fruit …

Papaya (Carica papaya) is severely damaged by the papaya ringspot virus (PRSV). This
review focuses on the development of PRSV resistant transgenic papaya through gene …

Papaya ringspot virus (PRSV) seriously limits papaya (Carica papaya L.) production in
tropical and subtropical areas throughout the world. Coat protein (CP)-transgenic papaya …

Plant virus ecology mainly focuses upon populations and their interactions with host plants
within environment. The subject includes interesting insights as many factors which affect …