The world's staple food crops, and other food crops that optimize human nutrition, suffer from
global virus disease pandemics and epidemics that greatly diminish their yields and/or …

Potyviruses (viruses in the genus Potyvirus, family Potyviridae) constitute the largest group
of known plant-infecting RNA viruses and include many agriculturally important viruses that …

Viral diseases provide a major challenge to twenty-first century agriculture worldwide.
Climate change and human population pressures are driving rapid alterations in agricultural …

The pathological importance of mixed viral infections in plants might be underestimated
except for a few well-characterized synergistic combinations in certain crops. Considering …

Adaptive antiviral immunity in plants is an RNA-based mechanism in which small RNAs
derived from both strands of the viral RNA are guides for an Argonaute (AGO) nuclease. The …

Virus disease pandemics and epidemics that occur in the world's staple food crops pose a
major threat to global food security, especially in developing countries with tropical or …

Maize lethal necrosis (MLN), a complex viral disease, emerged as a serious threat to maize
production and the livelihoods of smallholders in eastern Africa since 2011, primarily due to …

Sustainable intensification of agriculture in Africa is essential for accomplishing food and
nutritional security and addressing the rising concerns of climate change. There is an urgent …

This article is part of the Top 10 Unanswered Questions in MPMI invited review series. The
past few decades have seen major discoveries in the field of molecular plant-microbe …

Maize production in West and Central Africa (WCA) is constrained by a wide range of
interacting stresses that keep productivity below potential yields. Among the many problems …