Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) is an important virus because of its agricultural impact in the
Mediterranean Basin and worldwide, and also as a model for understanding plant–virus …

Viruses are common agents of plant infectious diseases. During last decades, worldwide
agriculture production has been compromised by a series of epidemics caused by new …

Cucurbit crops may be affected by at least 28 different viruses in the Mediterranean basin.
Some of these viruses are widely distributed and cause severe yield losses while others are …

Highlights•New plant viruses diseases emerge periodically in crops.•These viruses jump
species from other crops, or from wild plants.•The role of biodiversity loss, or ecosystem …

Milk thistle (Silybum marianum L. Gaertn.) is the most researched plant for the treatment of
liver disease. Its therapeutic properties are due to the presence of silymarin, a mixture of …

Tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV; genus, Tobamovirus, family, Virgaviridae) was
first reported in 2015 infecting tomatoes grown under protected cropping in the Jordan …

The long-term coevolution of hosts and pathogens in their environment forms a complex
web of multi-scale interactions. Understanding how environmental heterogeneity affects the …

The cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) 2b protein not only inhibits anti-viral RNA silencing but
also quenches transcriptional responses of plant genes to jasmonic acid, a key signalling …

Weeds surrounding crops may act as alternative hosts, playing important epidemiological
roles as virus reservoirs and impacting virus evolution. We used high-throughput …

Persistent infection, wherein a pathogen is continually present in a host individual, is
widespread in virus–host systems. However, little is known regarding how seasonal …