Emerging Plant Viruses
This special issue belongs to the section "Viruses of Plants, Fungi and Protozoa".
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Emerging (and re-emerging) plant viruses are a major threat to food security and the economic stability of societies. The conditions that favour viral emergence are known, starting with an increase in close interactions between wild and cultivated compartments, and modifications to the climate, farming practices and international trades, as well as to the capacity of viruses to quickly evolve and adapt to new hosts.
The ‘emerging plant viruses’ Special Issue of MDPI includes studies covering most aspects of new and re-emerging viruses that impact any staple food and cash crops. Topics of interest include but are not limited to virus discovery, mechanisms of virus entry, pathogenesis, ecology, epidemiology, and decision making at national or international levels that discuss means of detecting, controlling and preventing potential outbreak. Research and reviews are welcomed.
Dr. Jean-Michel Hily
Dr. Nils Poulicard
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- virome
- high-throughput sequencing
- molecular and field epidemiology
- evolution
- modeling analyses
- adaptation (host jump/spillover)
- phylogenomics
- detection/diagnostic
- decision-making tools/regulation
- vectors
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Published Papers
Viruses - ISSN 1999-4915