With the expansion of protected vegetable growing areas (PVGAs), viral plant diseases have become more prevalent, causing severe economic losses to the vegetable production industry in China. At present, researches on plant viruses mainly focus on plants, but there is only a few reports on the...

Woody plant encroachment into grasslands is occurring worldwide, affecting ecosystems in ways that likely influence mosquito-borne disease transmission. In the U.S. Great Plains, encroachment by eastern redcedar (Juniperus virginiana) (ERC) may be expanding conducive habitat for mosquitoes and...

Coffee berry disease (CBD) can cause significant coffee yield losses along with major income losses for African smallholders. Although these farmers cannot afford to purchase pesticides to control the disease, agroecological solutions have rarely been investigated, and how epidemiological...

The survey was conducted during rabi season (2021) to determine the incidence of mosaic disease of capsicum in major capsicum growing districts namely, Chikkaballapura, Kolar, Bengaluru rural and Ramanagar. The per cent incidence of mosaic disease based on symptoms in field was recorded, highest in ...

Insect-vectored plant pathogens are known to alter host-plant quality and associated cues, subsequently affecting the frequency of interactions with vectors and influencing pathogen transmission. It is unknown whether these changes deliver information highly specific to the vector and have evolved...

Tomato yellow leaf viral disease (TYLCV) is one of the most damaging agents that causes very high yield losses worldwide and has spread to most parts of Iran. Numerous strategies have been developed to combat this disease, but these methods have been practically ineffective. In order to investigate ...

Agriculture is the backbone of Pakistan and the growing crops are called as the "spinal cord" of the state but still import bill of the country agricultural products is rising day by day and issues of the food security is also becoming grave because of less knowledge of farmers about the emerging...

High-throughput sequencing was used to analyze Hibiscus rosa-sinensis (family Malvaceae) plants with virus-like symptoms in Hawaii. Bioinformatic and phylogenetic analysis revealed the presence of two tobamoviruses, hibiscus latent Fort Pierce virus (HLFPV) and a new tobamovirus with the proposed...

Diaphorina citri, the Asian citrus psyllid, is a vector of Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus (CLas), the causal agent of huanglongbing (HLB), the world's most serious disease of citrus. Owing to the relevancy and urgency of HLB research, the study of transmission biology in the HLB pathosystem has...

Given the ecological and epidemiological specialization of Hyalesthes obsoletus, the principle vector of 'Candidatus Phytoplasma solani', the primary objective of this study was to develop molecular tools for discriminating three host plant associations of the vector populations: (i) Convolvulus...