Plant viruses of agricultural importance: Current and future perspectives of virus disease management strategies

S Tatineni, GL Hein - Phytopathology®, 2023 - Am Phytopath Society
Plant viruses cause significant losses in agricultural crops worldwide, affecting the yield and
quality of agricultural products. The emergence of novel viruses or variants through genetic …

CRISPR/Cas genome editing technologies for plant improvement against biotic and abiotic stresses: advances, limitations, and future perspectives

Y Wang, N Zafar, Q Ali, H Manghwar, G Wang, L Yu… - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Crossbreeding, mutation breeding, and traditional transgenic breeding take much time to
improve desirable characters/traits. CRISPR/Cas-mediated genome editing (GE) is a game …

CRISPR/Cas‐based tools for the targeted control of plant viruses

G Robertson, J Burger, M Campa - Molecular Plant Pathology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Plant viruses are known to infect most economically important crops and pose a major threat
to global food security. Currently, few resistant host phenotypes have been delineated, and …

Tools and targets: The dual role of plant viruses in CRISPR–Cas genome editing

M Uranga, JA Daròs - The Plant Genome, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The recent emergence of tools based on the clustered, regularly interspaced, short
palindromic repeats (CRISPR) and CRISPR‐associated (Cas) proteins have revolutionized …

The potential and green chemistry attributes of biopesticides for sustainable agriculture

EO Fenibo, GN Ijoma, W Nurmahomed, T Matambo - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Chemotherapy has advanced modern agriculture with costly side effects such as the
extinction of beneficial species, resistant pest resurgence, environmental pollution, tainted …

Advances and prospects of virus-resistant breeding in tomatoes

Z Shahriari, X Su, K Zheng, Z Zhang - International Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Plant viruses are the main pathogens which cause significant quality and yield losses in
tomato crops. The important viruses that infect tomatoes worldwide belong to five genera …

Defense strategies: The role of transcription factors in tomato–pathogen interaction

MD Campos, MR Felix, M Patanita, P Materatski… - Biology, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Tomato is one of the most cultivated and economically important vegetable
crops throughout the world. It is affected by a panoply of different pathogens that cause …

Barley stripe mosaic virus-mediated somatic and heritable gene editing in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.)

S Tamilselvan-Nattar-Amutha, S Hiekel… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Genome editing strategies in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) typically rely on Agrobacterium-
mediated genetic transformation for the delivery of required genetic reagents involving …

Role of plant virus movement proteins in suppression of host RNAi defense

AK Atabekova, AD Solovieva, DA Chergintsev… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
One of the systems of plant defense against viral infection is RNA silencing, or RNA
interference (RNAi), in which small RNAs derived from viral genomic RNAs and/or mRNAs …

Scanning the horizon for environmental applications of genetically modified viruses reveals challenges for their environmental risk assessment

MF Eckerstorfer, M Dolezel, M Miklau, A Greiter… - International Journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
The release of novel genetically modified (GM) virus applications into the environment for
agricultural, veterinary, and nature-conservation purposes poses a number of significant …