Emerging microbial biocontrol strategies for plant pathogens

SFS Ab Rahman, E Singh, CMJ Pieterse, PM Schenk - Plant Science, 2018 - Elsevier
To address food security, agricultural yields must increase to match the growing human
population in the near future. There is now a strong push to develop low-input and more …

Emerging virus diseases transmitted by whiteflies

J Navas-Castillo, E Fiallo-Olivé… - Annual review of …, 2011 - annualreviews.org
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 …

World management of geminiviruses

MR Rojas, MA Macedo, MR Maliano… - Annual review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Management of geminiviruses is a worldwide challenge because of the widespread
distribution of economically important diseases caused by these viruses. Regardless of the …

Factors influencing begomovirus evolution and their increasing global significance: implications for sustainable control

SE Seal, F VandenBosch, MJ Jeger - Critical reviews in plant …, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
Begomoviruses (Family Geminiviridae, Genus Begomovirus) have become the most
destructive group of plant viruses in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. The recent …

Cotton leaf curl disease–an emerging threat to cotton production worldwide

MN Sattar, A Kvarnheden, M Saeed… - Journal of General …, 2013 - microbiologyresearch.org
Cotton leaf curl disease (CLCuD) is a serious disease of cotton which has characteristic
symptoms, the most unusual of which is the formation of leaf-like enations on the undersides …

CRISPR/Cas9: a tool to circumscribe cotton leaf curl disease

Z Iqbal, MN Sattar, M Shafiq - Frontiers in plant science, 2016 - frontiersin.org
The begomoviruses (family Geminiviridae) associated with cotton leaf curl disease (CLCuD)
pose a major threat to cotton productivity in South–East Asia including Pakistan and India …

Recommendations for the classification and nomenclature of the DNA-β satellites of begomoviruses

RW Briddon, JK Brown, E Moriones, J Stanley… - Archives of …, 2008 - Springer
The symptom-modulating, single-stranded DNA satellites (known as DNA-β) associated with
begomoviruses (family Geminiviridae) have proven to be widespread and important …

Cotton leaf curl disease is associated with multiple monopartite begomoviruses supported by single DNA β

S Mansoor, RW Briddon, SE Bull, ID Bedford… - Archives of …, 2003 - Springer
For bipartite begomoviruses (family Geminiviridae) trans-replication of the DNA B
component by the DNA A-encoded replication-associated protein (Rep) is achieved by …

Brazilian begomovirus populations are highly recombinant, rapidly evolving, and segregated based on geographical location

CS Rocha, GP Castillo-Urquiza, ATM Lima… - Journal of …, 2013 - Am Soc Microbiol
The incidence of begomovirus infections in crop plants sharply increased in Brazil during the
1990s following the introduction of the invasive B biotype of the whitefly vector, Bemisia …

Cotton leaf curl disease, a multicomponent begomovirus complex

RW Briddon - Molecular Plant Pathology, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Cotton leaf curl is a serious disease of cotton and several other malvaceous plant species
that is transmitted by the whitefly Bemisia tabaci. The disease is, at this time, endemic …