Emerging and Reemerging Plant Viruses in a Changing World
A special issue of Viruses (ISSN 1999-4915). This special issue belongs to the section "Viruses of Plants, Fungi and Protozoa".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 70
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant virome analysis; plant resistance to viruses; plant-virus-vector relationships
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, numerous factors have contributed to the spread of serious viral diseases in plants. Some current examples include the epidemics caused by ToLCNDV in cucurbits in several countries of the Mediterranean basin, transmitted by its efficient vector Bemisia tabaci, and those caused by the ToBRFV, a seed-borne virus which is considered a global threat to tomato production. The establishment of a viral infection is genetically determined by the availability of host factors necessary for virus replication and movement, and by the balance between plant defense and the viral suppression of defense responses. Continuous planetary changes influence these factors and are relevant to such infections in their alteration of the pathogen’s pressure, the exposure to pathogens, the plant response to infection, or their ability to facilitate the introduction of viruses and vectors into new areas. Furthermore, the expansion of agricultural frontiers leads to greater contact between natural and altered ecosystems, increasing the exposure of plants to new viruses. In particular, ongoing climate change alters the distribution and phenology of plant virus vectors, resulting in the spread of viruses that have colonized or recolonized new areas and new hosts, most often in mixed infections, while global trade leads to the unwilling movement of plants, viruses, and vectors, contributing to their worldwide diffusion.
This Special Issue welcomes original research submissions and perspective and review articles focused on epidemiology, transmission pathways and natural cycles, and virulence and plant resistance concerning new emerging and re-emerging viruses. Methods papers covering the development and evaluation of diagnostic assays for the diagnosis of new emerging viruses are also welcome. Studies aiming at the discovery of new viruses (together with physiological insights into virus and/or host life histories), or at establishing the pathogenesis of viruses correlating to global changes, are also within the scope of this Special Issue.
Dr. Giuseppe Parrella
Guest Editor
Prof. Dr. Raed Alkowni
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- emerging and re-emerging viruses
- virus spillover
- climate change and global trade
- mixed infections
- plant–virus–vector relationships
