While single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) was once thought to be a relatively rare genomic
architecture for viruses, modern metagenomics sequencing has revealed circular ssDNA …

This review focuses on virus-plant pathosystems at the interface between managed and
natural vegetation, and describes how rapid expansion in human activity and climate …

Plant viruses infect many economically important crops, including wheat, cotton, maize,
cassava, and other vegetables. These viruses pose a serious threat to agriculture …

Cytosine methylation is an epigenetic mark that promotes gene silencing and plays an
important role in genome defence against transposons and invading DNA viruses. Previous …

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 …

Motivated by questions such as “Why do some diseases take off, while others die out?” and
“How can we optimize the deployment of control methods,” we introduce simple …

Over the past three decades, highly increased whitefly (Bemisia tabaci) populations have
been observed on the staple food crop cassava in eastern Africa and associated with …

After clarifying the relationship between the closely related concepts of ecology and
epidemiology as they are used in plant virology, this article provides a historical perspective …

Begomoviruses are ssDNA plant viruses that cause serious epidemics in economically
important crops worldwide. Non-cultivated plants also harbour many begomoviruses, and it …

In recent years, mathematical modeling has increasingly been used to complement
experimental and observational studies of biological phenomena across different levels of …