Current Research Topics in Plant Virology
This book written by international authorities in the field consists of 14 chapters, summarizing the most recent progress in the major plant virus research areas, pointing out current challenges and discussing future prospects. This book is an ideal refer
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Aiming Wang • Xueping Zhou Editors
Current Research Topics in Plant Virology
Editors Aiming Wang London Research and Development Centre Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada London, Ontario Canada
Xueping Zhou State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences Beijing, China State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology Zhejiang University Hangzhou, China
ISBN 978-3-319-32917-8 ISBN 978-3-319-32919-2 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-32919-2
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Preface
Viruses are submicroscopic, obligate intracellular parasites that infect all living organisms and exclusively live and multiplicate in their host cells. Since the discovery of the first virus tobacco mosaic virus in 1890s, over 5000 virus species have been documented in detail. Viral pathogens virtually infect all living organisms and cause significant losses including mortality, morbidity, and economic losses. In plants, viruses cause many economically important diseases in all parts of the world. Virus infection can reduce crop yields drastically and deteriorate crop quality. In some cases, viral pathogens become a limited factor to crop production. Genetic resistance is the most effective approach to the control of viral diseases. However, natural resistant resources are rare, and, if any, usually only confer resistance to a particular virus species or group of highly related species. Development of novel antiviral strategies
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