The complex and specific interplay between thrips, tospoviruses, and their shared plant
hosts leads to outbreaks of crop disease epidemics of economic and social importance. The …

Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on the plant virus disease problem in the
developing world. The viruses of greatest importance are those affecting the crops that feed …

Taxonomy: Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) is the type member of the plant‐infecting
Tospovirus genus in the family Bunyaviridae, a large group of predominantly vertebrate‐and …

The nucleotide sequences of the nucleoprotein (N) genes of seven tospovirus isolates
representing three serogroups were determined and used to establish phylogenetic …

ABSTRACT A new tospovirus was identified in iris cultivations in the Netherlands. Both
serological comparisons and sequence determination of the S RNA demonstrate that this …

RNA silencing is a natural antiviral defence in plants, which can be exploited in transgenic
plants for preprogramming virus recognition and ensuring enhanced resistance. By …

The tospoviruses are a diverse, cosmopolitan and economically important genus of plant
viruses. In the recent past, interest in the tospoviruses has been rekindled with the …

Multiple viral infections frequently are found in single plants of cultivated and wild hosts in
nature, with unpredictable pathological consequences. Synergistic reactions were observed …

Recently high levels of protection against tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV), a negative–
strand RNA virus infecting plants, have been obtained by transforming tobacco with viral …

Although the S w‐5 gene cluster has been cloned, and S w‐5b has been identified as the
functional gene copy that confers resistance to T omato spotted wilt virus (TSWV), its …