Viruses survive often harsh host environments, yet we know little about the strategies they
utilize to adapt and subsist given their limited genomic resources. We are beginning to …

The majority of plant-infecting viruses are transmitted to their host plants by vectors. The
interactions between viruses and vector vary in duration and specificity but some common …

Acquisition and transmission by an insect vector is central to the infection cycle of the
majority of plant pathogenic viruses. Plant viruses can interact with their insect host in a …

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 …

The complete nucleotide sequence of the large (L) genome segment of tomato spotted wilt
virus (TSWV) has been determined. The RNA is 8897 nucleotides long and contains …

Since 1986, the ability to confer resistance against an otherwise devastating virus by
introducing a single pathogen-derived or virus-targeted sequence into the DNA of a …

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 complete sequence of the tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) M RNA segment has been
determined. The RNA is 4821 nucleotides long and has an ambisense coding strategy …

Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) is one of the most important diseases affecting tomatoes,
occasionally leading to losses of up to 100%. Because of the importance of this virus …

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 …