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Crop viruses are recognised as a major threat to global food production and security, with reduced yields and treatment costs translating in annual losses of up to $60 billion. Although viruses are relatively simple biological entities, their ability to continuously evolve to produce numerous variants makes them extremely difficult to both study and control.
Advances in understanding and managing crop viruses provides a comprehensive overview of some of the major viruses affecting key agricultural crops, focussing on how they evolve and interact with vectors and hosts, as well as how this understanding can be used to improve ways of preventing and controlling damage from crop viruses. The book also reviews key challenges in classifying plant viruses and strategies for detecting their presence, such as the use of next generation sequencing and other molecular methods.
Dr Daniel Leybourne is Head of the Pest and Pathogen Surveillance Team at the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI), UK. Dr Leybourne was formerly a Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool, UK where he was awarded a Royal Commission of the Exhibition of 1851 Research Fellowship. He is a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society and a former recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship. His key area of research is to identify and characterise factors that underpin virus and vector success in agricultural ecosystems.
Dr Trisna Tungadi is a Lecturer in Plant Health at Keele University, UK. She is a member of the Association of Applied Biologists (AAB) Virology Steering Group, and a Board Member at the British Society of Plant Pathology. Prior to starting her research group at Keele, she was a postdoctoral researcher in Professor John Carr’s Plant Virology Lab at the University of Cambridge, UK and in Dr Michelle Fountain’s Entomology Research Group at NIAB, UK. Her research focus is the study of plant responses to viral pathogens and their insect vectors and how these interactions influence virus transmission.
Part 1 General
- 1.Challenges and advances in classification of plant viruses: Sead Sabanadzovic, Mississippi State University, USA;
- 2.Understanding mechanisms of plant virus evolution: Marilyn Roosinck, The Pennsylvania State University, USA;
- 3.Advances in understanding plant virus and arthropod vector relationships: Quentin Chesnais, INRAE, France;
- 4.Advances in understanding plant virus transmission, epidemiology and persistence in the environment: Michael Jeger, Imperial College London, UK;
- 5.Advances in understanding plant defences against attack by viruses: Rosa Lozano-Duran, University of Tübingen, Germany;
Part 2 Disease management
- 6.Advances in detection of plant viruses using molecular methods and next generation sequencing: Gonçalo Silva, Greenwich University, UK;
- 7.Advances in introducing viral resistance genes into crops: Gustavo Fermin, United Nations University, Venezuela;
- 8.Use of mild strains and plant immunity agents to induce plant virus resistance: Scott Harper, Washington State University, USA;
- 9.Defining and implementing integrated plant virus disease management programmes: Roger Jones, University of Western Australia, Australia;
Part 3 Viruses affecting particular crops
- 10.Understanding and controlling viruses affecting maize: John Derera, IITA, Nigeria;
- 11.Understanding and controlling viruses affecting solanaceous crops: Hernan Garcia-Ruiz, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA;
- 12.Understanding and controlling viruses affecting cucurbits: Pedro Gomez Lopez, CEBAS-CSIC, Spain;
- 13.Understanding and controlling viruses affecting brassicas: Julia Cremer, Department of Primary Industries (Queensland), Australia;
- 14.Understanding and controlling viruses affecting berry crops: Ioannis Tzanentakis, University of Arkansas, USA;
- 15.Understanding and controlling viruses affecting citrus fruits: Hano Maree, Stellenbosch University, South Africa;
- 16.Leafroll and red blotch: two viral diseases of concern to the grape industries: Marc Fuchs, Cornell University, USA;