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DESK ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PLANT AND FUNGAL VIROLOGY
Desk Encyclopedia of Plant and Fungal Virology
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Edited By
Brian Mahy, Coordinating Center for Infectious Diseases, CDC, Atlanta, GA, USA
Marc van Regenmortel, ESBS , CNRS , Strasbourg, France

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



Bibliographic details
Hardbound, 600 pages, publication date: SEP-2009
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-375148-5
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS

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