Current Research Topics in Plant Virology

ISBN-13: 9783319329178 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 335 str.

Aiming Wang; Xueping Zhou

Opis

Topics covered in this book include RNA silencing and its suppression in plant virus infection, virus replication mechanisms, the association of cellular membranes with virus replication and movement, plant genetic resistance to viruses, viral cell-to-cell spread, long distance movement in plants, virus induced ER stress, virus diversity and evolution, virus-vector interactions, cross protection, geminiviruses, negative strand RNA viruses, viroids, and the diagnosis of plant viral diseases using next generation sequencing. This book was anticipated to help plant pathologists, scholars, professors, teachers and advanced students in the field with a comprehensive state-of-the-art knowledge of the subject.

Recenzje

"The editors of this volume have created a very useful work that will assist individuals interested in plant virology. For the newer specialist, this work will serve as a good avenue to gain further information about the subject. ... each chapter contains an extensive 'Literature Cited' section that provides primary literature citations for further exploration of each chapter's topic. Therefore, it will serve as a strong reference source. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above; researchers and faculty." (S. T. Meiers, Choice, Vol. 54 (5), January, 2017)

Spis treści

1. Antiviral Silencing and Suppression of Gene Silencing in Plants 

Tibor Csorba and József Burgyán

2. Exploration of Plant Virus Replication inside a Surrogate Host, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Elucidates Complex and Conserved mechanisms

Zsuzsanna Sasvari and Peter D. Nagy

3. Membrane Association for Plant Virus Replication and Movement

Jun Jiang and Jean-François Laliberté

4. Plant Genetic Resistance to Viruses 

Steven A. Whitham and M. R. Hajimorad

5. Cell-to-Cell Movement of Plant Viruses: A Diversity of Mechanisms and Strategies

Maria R. Rojas, Minor R. Maliano, Juliana O. de Souza, Marcela Vasquez-Mayorga, Mônica A. de Macedo, Byung-Kook Ham and Robert L. Gilbertson 

6. Long-Distance Movement of Viruses in Plants

Jang-Kyun Seo and Kook-Hyung Kim

7. ER Stress, UPR and Virus Infections in Plants

Lingrui Zhang and Aiming Wang

8. Plant Virus Diversity and Evolution 

Anthony Stobbe and Marilyn J. Roossinck

9. Plant Virus-Vector Interactions:  More than just for Virus Transmission

Clare L. Casteel and Bryce W. Falk

10. Cross Protection of Plant Viruses: Recent Developments and Mechanistic Implications

Xiao-Feng Zhang and Feng Qu 

11. Research Advances in Geminiviruses 

Xiuling Yang, Bi Wang, Fangfang Li, QiuyingYang, and Xueping Zhou

12. Research Advances in Negative-Strand Plant RNA Viruses

Xiaorong Tao, Xueping Zhou, and Jia Li

13. Viroids: Small Noncoding Infectious RNAs with the Remarkable Ability of Autonomous Replication 

José-Antonio Daròs

14. Diagnosis of Plant Viruses using Next-Generation Sequencing and Metagenomic Analysis

Ian Adams and Adrian Fox

O autorze

Dr. Aiming Wang / Prof. Xueping Zhou = editors 

Blurb

This book written by international authorities in the field consists of 14 chapters, summarizing the most recent progress in the major plant virus research areas, pointing out current challenges and discussing future prospects. This book is an ideal reference book for teachers, senior undergraduate students, graduate students, and scientists who are interested in plant biology, microbiology, pathology and virology. Since the discovery of the first virus tobacco mosaic virus in 1890s, virology has become a subject of science. As an obligate intracellular parasite, virus virtually infects all living organisms and exclusively lives and multiplies in its host cells. Viral infections cause significant losses. In plants, virus infections often reduce crop yields drastically and deteriorate crop quality. As a major branch of virology, plant virology studies plant viruses, aimed at the development of novel antiviral strategies and beneficial uses of viruses. Its core is constituted of the viral life cycle, virus-host biology, viral pathogenesis, immunity to viruses, virus structure, and virus evolution and ecology. Since 1980s, numerous milestone findings in plant virology, such as transcriptional promoters (i.e., the cauliflower mosaic virus 35S promoter), terminations, translational enhancers, and virus-induced gene silencing and suppression of gene silencing, and viral cell-to-cell movement and systemic spread,  has contributed enormously to the advancement and development of modern biology and plant biotechnology. More recently, various breakthroughs have led to the rapid advance of this subject.