Tobamoviruses: Molecular Aspects and Resistance Regulation—a Special Issue Commemorating 125 Years of Research on Tobamoviruses
A special issue of Viruses (ISSN 1999-4915). This special issue belongs to the section "Viruses of Plants, Fungi and Protozoa".
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Interests: molecular analysis of the signaling pathways of resistance elicited by tobacco mosaic virus in tobacco containing the N gene; molecular biology of cucumber mosaic virus, viroids, and satellites
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Dear Colleagues,
In 1998, a 2-day symposium was held at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Scotland, to commemorate the first 100 years of research on TMV. The meeting was organized by Professors Bryan D. Harrison and T. Michael Wilson of what was then the Scottish Crop Research Institute (now the James Hutton Research Institute, in Dundee, UK), and was sponsored by The Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Society of London, UK. As stated in a report of this meeting [1], “A wide diversity of research fields – crystallography, plant pathology, immunology, biochemistry, genetics, and evolutionary biology – was represented at the meeting, with distinguished symposium speakers describing the contributions made by their respective disciplines to our current understanding of TMV biology.” These presentations were published by the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London: Biological Sciences [2]. In the same year, a book was published, entitled “Tobacco Mosaic Virus. One Hundred Years of Contributions to Virology” [3], commemorating the major discoveries involving TMV, including reprints of the original papers. This year marks 125 years of research on TMV, but there is also much research on many other members of the genus Tobamovirus, in which TMV is the type member, that have added significantly to the literature. Here, we wish to commemorate this occasion by publishing a Special Issue of Viruses entitled “Tobamoviruses: Molecular Aspects and Resistance Regulation.” Hence, we invite papers to be submitted, from now until the end of 2023, for inclusion in this Special Issue. As always with Special Issue in Viruses, papers will be published very soon after acceptance. We look forward to receiving your submissions.
1. Creager, A.N.H.; Scholthof, K.-B.G.; Citovsky, V.; Scholthof, H.B. Tobacco mosaic virus: pioneering research for a century. Plant Cell 1999, 11, 301-308.
2. Harrison, B.D.; Wilson, T.M.A. Preface to tobacco mosaic virus: pioneering research for a century. A meeting held on 7 and 8 August 1998 by the Royal Society of Edinburgh in association with the Royal Society of London. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 1999, 354, 519-519.
3. Scholthof, K.-B.G.; Shaw, J.G.; Zaitlin, M. (Eds.) Tobacco Mosaic Virus: One Hundred Years of Contributions to Virology; Am. Phytopathol. Soc. Press: St. Paul, MN, USA, 1999; p. 256.
Prof. Dr. Peter Palukaitis
Dr. Alex M. Murphy
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