The ecology of plant viruses began to be explored at the end of the 19th century. Since then,
major advances have revealed mechanisms of virus-host-vector interactions in various …

Trichomes, also simply referred to as hairs, are fine outgrowths of epidermal cells in many
organisms including plants and bacteria. Plant trichomes have long been known for their …

The incidence of Hop latent viroid (HLVd) affecting cannabis plants in licenced production
facilities in Canada during 2020–2023 was determined by RT-PCR analyses of 15 947 …

In the last few decades, a large research input has been geared up to develop and exploit a
number of different techniques aiming to produce plants with improved resistance to biotic …

Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) is one of the most prevalent plant viruses in the world, and
causes severe damage to various crops. CMV has been studied as a model RNA virus to …

Cassava brown streak disease (CBSD), caused by Cassava brown streak virus (CBSV) and
Ugandan cassava brown streak virus (UCBSV), ranks among the top seven biological …

Under the field conditions crop plants interact with diverse microorganisms. These include
beneficial (symbiotic) and phytopathogenic microorganisms, which jointly affect growth and …

Landscape composition affects local arthropod biodiversity, including herbivorous insects
and their predators, yet to date landscape effects on insect‐vectored plant diseases have …

RNA viruses have a great potential for high genetic variability and rapid evolution that is
generated by mutation and recombination under selection pressure. This is also the case of …

Turnip yellows virus (TuYV; family Luteoviridae, genus Polerovirus) is the most economically
damaging virus infecting canola (Brassica napus) in the south-west Australian grainbelt …