1st Edition
New and Emerging Plant Viruses The Threat to Food Security
PART I: DIFFERENT SOURCES OF PLANT VIRUSES
1. Tracking of Plant Viruses in Different Sources: A Huge Gap Between Estimated and Known Diversity
Mahsa Mansourpour, Niayesh Shahmohammadi, and Alireza Golnaraghi
2. Wild Plants: a Source of Emerging Viruses and Their Impact on Agriculture and Food Security
Rodolfo Torres-de los Santos, Ma. Guadalupe Bustos-Vazquez, Hermilo Lucio-Castillo, Víctor Albores-Flores, R. Ivonne Torres-Acosta, Daniel Trujillo-Ramírez, and Humberto Martínez-Montoya
3. Tobacco and Weeds as Hidden Sources of Plant Viruses Threatening Vegetable Production of Solanaceae Crops
Nikolay Manchev Petrov, Mariya Ivanova Stoyanova, Rajarshi Kumar Gaur, Milena Georgieva Bozhilova-Sakova, Ivona Vassileva Dimitrova
4. Diversity and Phylogeography of Begomoviruses and DNA Satellites Associated with Weed Hosts
Premchand U., Shridhar Hiremath, V. Venkataravanappa, Mohanraj M., Mantesh M., C. N. Lakshminarayana Reddy, Devappa, V., and K. S. Shankarappa
5. Diversity of Arthropod Vectors of Plant Viruses
Lalit Mahatma and Abhishek Shukla
6. The Pomegranate Viruses and Their Pathogenic Expression
Khushboo Jain, Shalini Tailor, Mukesh Meena, Chitra Nehra, R. K. Gaur, and Avinash Marwal
7. Virome and Vectorome Analyses of Vectors: New Approaches for Evolutionary Studies of Plant Viruses
Sayyad Ali Raza Bukhari and Muhammad Saeed
8. Weeds and Wild Relatives as Undetermined Plant Virus Sources- Detection and Diagnosis
Alangar Ishwara Bhat and Arjunan Jeevalath
PART II: PLANT VIRUS-HOST INTERACTION/EVOLUTION
9. Implications of Mixed Infection on Disease Pathogenicity and Epidemiology
Punam Ranjan, Bhavin Bhatt, and Achuit Kumar Singh
10. Understanding Begomovirus and Its Host Relationship
Neha Rauniyar and Deepa Srivastava
11. Plant Viruses: An Inquisitive Journey from Old to New World
Shailja Chauhan, Aparna Chodon, P. Lekshmipriya, Gopal Pandi, and Jebasingh Tennyson
Biography
Alireza Golnaraghi, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Plant Protection, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University. He is also a researcher in the Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, University of British Columbia, and in the Department of Biodiversity, BoomZista Institute, both in Vancouver, Canada. Dr. Golnaraghi has made significant contributions on viruses and endophytic microbes, especially in wild plants in natural ecosystems. He has published over 50 national/international papers, authored several books, contributed in writing two book chapters, and presented more than 65 papers in national and international conferences.
Rajarshi Kumar Gaur, PhD, is Professor of Biotechnology at Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gorakhpur University, Uttar Pradesh, India. He handles many national and international grants and collaborative projects on plant viruses and disease management. He has made significant contributions on sugarcane viruses and published 130 national and international papers, authored 20 edited books, and presented many papers at national and international conferences. He has received several fellowships and awards and has visited several laboratories in the USA, Canada, New Zealand, UK, Thailand, Sweden, and Italy. He has received several fellowships. His PhD was on molecular characterization of sugarcane viruses, viz., mosaic, streak mosaic and yellow luteovirus.
