Plant Virus Disease Control

Plant Virus Disease Control

This immense book is a complete source of valuable information on important plant virus diseases. It will serve as a practical resource, guiding its readers toward the development and application of novel technologies for plant virus disease control.

Several chapters summarize current information about plant virus diseases of crops including corn, wheat, barley, oats, rice, sugarcane, bean, fava bean, peanut, potato, tomato, cucumber, citrus, stone fruits, banana, and cassava. Drawing from field experience, the authors help readers understand and meet the challenge involved in achieving successful control strategies.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Contributors; Contents; Preface; Foreword; Introduction; Economic Importance; Economic Losses Due to Plant Viruses; Strategies for Control; Resistance: Conventional approaches; Breeding for Resistance to Plant Viruses; Control of Plant Virus Diseases by Cross-protection; of Virus Infection in Crops Through Breeding Plants for Vector Resistance: Biochemical and molecular approaches; Biochemistry of Resistance to Plant Viruses; Protein and Replicase-mediated Resistance to Plant Viruses; Antisense RNA and Ribozyme-mediated Resistance to Plant Viruses; Satellite RNA-mediated Resistance to Plant Viruses: Are the Ecological Risks Well Assessed?; Alternative Strategies for Engineering Virus Resistance in Plants; Controlling Mosaic Virus Diseases Under Field Conditions by Using Multiple-gene Strategies in Transgenic Plants Special topics related to resistance; Releasing Genetically Engineered Virus Resistant Crops - Risk Assessment; Antiviral Substances of Plant Origin Resistance to Plant Viruses: an Overview; Control of Vectors; Forecasting Aphid-borne Virus Diseases; Chemical Control of Insect and Nematode Vectors of Plant Viruses; Chemical Control of Fungal Vectors of Plant Viruses; Quarantine and Certification; Exclusion of Plant Viruses; IPGRI's Role in Controlling Virus Diseases in Plant Germplasm; Seed Certification for Viruses; Control of Viruses Affecting Potatoes Through Seed Potato Certification Programs; Virus Certification of Grapevines; Virus Certification of Ornamental Plants - The European Strategy; Virus Certification of Fruit Tree Propagative Material in Western Europe; Virus Certification of Deciduous Fruit Trees in The United States and Canada; Indexing for Viruses in Citrus; Virus Certification of Strawberries; Certification for Plant Viruses: an Overview; Elimination; Heat Treatment of Perennial Plants to Eliminate Phytoplasmas, Viruses, and Viroids While Maintaining Plant Survival; Virus Elimination by Meristem Tip Culture and Tip Micrografting; Detection; Advanced Diagnostic Tools as an Aid to Controlling Plant Virus Diseases; Identification and Detection of Recalcitrant Temperate Fruit Crop Viruses Using dsRNAs and Diffusion Antisera; Detection and Identification of Plant Viruses and Viroids Using Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR); Ultra Microscopic Detection of Plant Viruses and Their Gene Products; Detection and Management of Plant Viroids; Present Status of Controlling Economically Important Viruses; Present Status of Controlling Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus; Present Status of Controlling Rice Tungro Virus; Present Status of Controlling Rice Stripe Virus; Epidemiology and Control of Maize Streak Virus; Present Status of Management of Sugarcane Mosaic Virus; Present Status of Controlling Cucumber Mosaic Virus; Present Status of Controlling Bean Common Mosaic Virus; Epidemiology and Control of Faba Bean Necrotic Yellows Virus; Control Measures for the Economically Important Peanut Viruses; Approaches for Controlling Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus; Epidemiology and Management of Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Disease; Present Status of Controlling Potato Leafroll Virus; Present Status of Controlling Mechanically and Non-persistently Transmitted Potato Viruses; Present Status of Controlling Conventional Strains of Plum Pox Virus; Present Status of the New Cherry Subgroup of Plum Pox Virus (PPV-C); Control Strategies for Citrus Tristeza Virus; Banana Bunchy Top Disease: Current and Future Strategies for Control; The Control of African Cassava Mosaic Virus: Phytosanitation and/or Resistance?