We find that (1) virus prevalence is greater in cultivated areas in both locations, but that plant diversity is negatively associated with family-level diversity of plant-associated viruses ...

Physostegia chlorotic mottle virus (PhCMoV), a plant disease first identified ... data to improve knowledge on PhCMoV biology, epidemiology, and genetic diversity. The researchers identified ...

This is thus an explanation why multipartite viruses infect plants rather than animals. The researchers from Tokyo Tech continue to investigate the epidemiology of different types of infectious ...

epidemiology and modeling of plant diseases; and the diagnosis and control of plant diseases, including chemical, biological, and integrated methods of control.

When a mother plant with a virus makes, for example, 100 seeds, only between 0 and 5% of the seedlings are likely to become ...

Recent studies have employed mathematical models drawn from epidemiology (the study of how diseases occur in the population and why). These models were originally developed to study the spread of ...

Plant viruses are often able to spread from one country to another through the seed trade. As a result, parent-to-progeny disease transmission is of global concern. "Viruses can hide in seeds for ...