Virus diseases cause serious losses in yield and quality of cultivated plants worldwide.
These losses and the resulting financial damage can be limited by controlling epidemics …

Barrier plants are a management tool based on secondary plants used within or bordering a
primary crop for the purpose of disease control. Aphid-transmitted viruses account for …

This review is motivated by (i) the magnitude of the threat to world food security and diversity
of natural vegetation posed by viral and bacterial pathogens of plants at a time of …

Publisher Summary This chapter provides knowledge of viruses in wild plant communities. It
also briefly considers the unfulfilled drive to exploit genetic information inferred as a result of …

Publisher Summary This chapter emphasizes the importance of dissecting the different ways
in which diverse types of virus control measures operate before taking decisions on which to …

Aphids can cause substantial damage to cereals, oilseeds and legumes through direct
feeding and through the transmission of plant pathogenic viruses. Aphid-resistant varieties …

Here, we review the research undertaken since the 1950s in Australia's grain cropping
regions on seed-borne virus diseases of cool-season pulses caused by alfalfa mosaic virus …

18 Chemical Control Page 1 398 © CAB International 2017. Aphids as Crop Pests, 2nd
edition (eds HF van Emden and R. Harrington) Introduction As serious crop pests, aphids are …

There is a need to develop integrated disease management strategies that are
comprehensive and can protect farmers from the economic hardship that arises when …

Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) causes a serious disease of narrow-leafed lupin (Lupinus
angustifolius). It is seed-borne in lupin and seed-infected plants act as the primary virus …