1st Edition
New and Emerging Plant Viruses The Threat to Food Security
Emerging and re-emerging viruses are a constant threat to plants. Despite intensive efforts to manage and prevent plant viruses and their potential vectors in crop production processes, many crops are damaged each year. This book, New and Emerging Plant Virus Sources: The Threat to Food Security, reviews the progress made to date and the challenges ahead in the field of plant viruses and agricultural production.
The book covers various aspects of plant viruses in two sections:
- Different Sources of Plant Viruses
- Plant Virus-Host Interaction/Evolution
This book sheds light on previously undiscovered plant viruses, bringing together information on the detection and tracking, host interaction, evolution, and management. Each section comprehensively covers plant viruses, focusing on their diversity and pathogenic expressions. The first section covers the various hidden sources of plant viruses such as from wild plants, weeds, and tobacco as well as other undetermined plant virus sources. The second section covers the implications of mixed infection on disease pathogenicity and epidemiology, provides an understanding of the virus and host relationship, and presents an overview of plant viruses from old to new.
Providing new and important knowledge on major plant viruses and discussing their nature as well as impact on plants, this volume will be of special interest to research scholars, professors, and scientists working on plant and environmental viruses.
PART 1: 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 2: 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, Lekshmipriya P, Gopal Pandi, and Jebasingh Tennyson
Biography
Alireza Golnaraghi, PhD, is currently working as 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 Atmosphere Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and in the Department of Biodiversity, BoomZista Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. His PhD focused on biological, serological, and molecular characteristics of a Tospovirus isolated from potato and its detection through modern techniques, i.e., antibody microarrays. Dr. Golnaraghi has made significant efforts and 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 to writing two book chapters, and presented more than 65 papers in national and international conferences. In 2017, he joined a famous environmental microbiology/virology group at the Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmosphere Sciences (University of British Columbia, Canada) and, since then, has been working on algal viruses together with a well-known scientist (Prof. Curtis Suttle). With the help of international researchers and talented students, he established a not-for-profit corporation in Canada in 2020 (BoomZista Institute; boomzista.org) that focuses on various issues of the planet in an effort to disseminate nature-based sciences to people all over the world, especially kids and youth.
Rajarshi Kumar Gaur, PhD, is currently working as Professor in the Department of Biotechnology, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. He is handling many national and international grants and collaborative projects on plant viruses and disease management. He received a MASHAV fellowship of the Israeli government for his postdoctoral studies and joined The Volcani Centre, Israel, and Ben-Gurion University, Negev, Israel. In 2007, he received a visiting scientist fellowship from the Swedish Institute to work at Umea University, Sweden. He also received a postdoctoral fellowship from the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Italy, in 2008. He has made significant contributions on sugarcane viruses and published 130 national and international papers, authored 20 edited books, and presented about 50 papers at national and international conferences. He is a fellow of many associations, including Linnean Society, Royal Society of Biology, Society of Plant Research, Society of Applied Biology, and International Society of Biotechnology. He has received many awards, including the Prof. B.M. Johri Memorial Award; Society of Plant Research (SPR); Excellent Teaching Award from Astha Foundation, Meerut; UGC-Research Teacher Award, Young Scientist Award-2012 in Biotechnology from the Society of Plant Research (SPR), Meerut; and a Scientific & Applied Research Centre Gold Medal Award-2011 for outstanding contribution in the field of biotechnology. He has visited several laboratories of USA, Canada, New Zealand, UK, Thailand, Sweden, and Italy. His PhD was on molecular characterization of sugarcane viruses, viz., mosaic, streak mosaic and yellow luteovirus.
