Virus diseases that have emerged in the past two decades limit the production of important
vegetable crops in tropical, subtropical, and temperate regions worldwide, and many of the …

Begomoviruses are vectored in a circulative persistent manner by the whitefly Bemisia
tabaci. The insect ingests viral particles with its stylets. Virions pass along the food canal and …

Tomato yellow leaf curl (TYLC) is one of the most devastating viral diseases of cultivated
tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide, and losses …

Geminiviruses have small, single-stranded DNA genomes that replicate through double-
stranded intermediates in the nuclei of infected plant cells. Viral double-stranded DNA also …

DNA β is an approx 1350 nucleotide, single-stranded DNA molecule which has been shown
to be associated with some monopartite geminiviruses of the genus Begomovirus. This …

The whitefly-transmitted tomato yellow-leaf curl gemini-virus (TYLCV) is a major pathogen of
tomatoes. The wild tomato species Lycopersicon chilense, which is resistant to the virus …

Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) is one of the most studied plant viral pathogens
because it is the most damaging virus for global tomato production. In order to combat this …

Cotton leaf curl disease (CLCuD) is a major constraint to cotton production in Pakistan.
Infectious clones of the monopartite begomovirus cotton leaf curl virus (CLCuV), associated …

DNA β molecules are symptom-modulating, single-stranded DNA satellites associated with
monopartite begomoviruses (family Geminiviridae). Such molecules have thus far been …

The ongoing global spread of Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV; Genus Begomovirus,
Family Geminiviridae) represents a serious looming threat to tomato production in all …