Desk Encyclopedia of Plant and Fungal Virology

Edited by
  • Brian Mahy, Coordinating Center for Infectious Diseases, CDC, Atlanta, GA, USA
  • Marc van Regenmortel, ESBS , CNRS , Strasbourg, France

Hardbound, 632 Pages

Published: September 2009

Imprint: Academic Press

ISBN: 978-0-12-375148-5

Contents

  • Section 1. GENERAL TOPICS
    Movement of viruses in plants
    Vector transmission of plant viruses
    Diagnostic techniques: plant viruses
    Plant antiviral defense: gene silencing pathway
    Virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS)
    Plant resistance to viruses: engineered resistance
    Plant resistance to viruses: geminiviruses
    Plant virus vectors (gene expression systems)
    Vaccine production in plants
    Viroids

    Section 2. VIRUSES AND VIRUS GENERA
    Alfalfa mosaic virus
    Allexivirus
    Banana bunchy top virus
    Barley yellow dwarf viruses
    Beet curly top virus
    Benyvirus
    Bromoviruses
    Cacao swollen shoot virus
    Capillovirus, Foveavirus, Trichovirus, Vitivirus
    Carlavirus
    Carmovirus
    Caulimoviruses: general features
    Caulimoviruses: molecular biology
    Citrus tristeza virus
    Cowpea mosaic virus
    Cucumber mosaic virus
    Flexiviruses
    Furovirus
    Ilarvirus
    Luteoviruses
    Machlomovirus
    Maize streak virus
    Mungbean yellow mosaic viruses
    Nanoviruses
    Necrovirus
    Nepovirus
    Ophiovirus
    Papaya ringspot virus
    Pecluvirus
    Plant reoviruses
    Plant rhabdoviruses
    Plum pox virus
    Pomovirus
    Potato virus Y
    Potexvirus
    Rice yellow mottle virus
    Sequiviruses
    Sobemovirus
    Tenuivirus
    Tobacco mosaic virus
    Tobamovirus
    Tobravirus
    Tomato leaf curl viruses from India
    Tombusviruses
    Tospovirus
    Tymoviruses
    Umbravirus
    Watermelon mosaic virus and ZYMV

    Section 3. PLANT VIRUS DISEASES
    Cereal viruses: Maize and Corn
    Cereal viruses: Rice
    Cereal viruses: Wheat and Barley
    Emerging geminiviruses
    Emerging and reemerging virus diseases of plants
    Legume viruses
    Plant virus diseases: economic aspects
    Plant virus diseases: fruit trees and grapevine
    Plant virus diseases : ornamental plants
    Potato viruses
    Tobacco viruses
    Vegetable viruses

    Section 4. FUNGAL VIRUSES
    Ascoviruses
    Barnaviruses
    Chrysoviruses
    Dicistroviruses
    Fungal viruses
    Hypovirulence
    Hypoviruses
    Mycoreoviruses
    Narnaviruses
    Partitiviruses of fungi
    Prions of yeast and fungi
    Retrotransposons of fungi
    Totiviruses
    Ustilago maydis viruses
    Yeast L-A virus

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