Climate change significantly impacts crop production by inducing several abiotic and biotic
stresses. The increasing world population, and their food and industrial demands require …

Geminiviruses are plant-infecting viruses characterized by a single-stranded DNA (ssDNA)
genome. Geminivirus-derived proteins are multifunctional and effective regulators in …

Plants being sessile, are exposed to several biotic and abiotic stresses in their natural
habitat. The abiotic stress involves stress due to low temperature or high temperature, high …

Biotic stress caused by viruses, bacteria, fungi, insect pests and nematode parasites is
affecting the yield and quality of crop plants worldwide. Farmers use the agrochemicals …

MicroRNAs are small, ubiquitous, non-protein-coding essential endogenous task masters of
RNA interference (RNAi). These are more or less 22 nucleotide-long RNAs that repress …

Barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV) causes an often-devastating disease of cereals that is
most effectively controlled by using plant genotypes that are resistant or tolerant to the virus …

Geminivirus: Detection, Diagnosis and Management focuses on the latest techniques for
managing diseases caused by these circular, single-stranded (ss) DNA genomes. The most …

Tomato curly stunt virus (ToCSV) is one of the most important plant viruses affecting tomato
production in South Africa and tomato-growing fields affected by ToCSV can have as high as …

RNA silencing is a well-known antiviral pathway that also controls geminiviruses at two
levels: inhibition of viral transcription (TGS) and degradation of viral transcripts (PTGS). Plant …