Virus Diseases and Crop Biosecurity

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Cooper, Ian (Editor), Kühne, Thomas (Editor), Polishchuk, Valery P. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Series: NATO Security through Science Series
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Nutrition.; Agriculture.; Plant pathology.; Life Sciences.; Plant Pathology.

Biosecurity roughly means “safe life” and involves a variety of measures designed to prevent disease – causing agents from entering a region and there being spread. Food supplies are easy to disrupt and the provision of biosecurity at la- land borders is especially challenging if trade is to be main...

Table of Contents:

• A SHORT HISTORY OF WARFARE EMPHASIZING THE BIOLOGICAL ASPECTS
• CROP VIRUSES AND VIRUS DISEASES: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
• PLANT VIRUSES IN EUROPEAN AGRICULTURE: CURRENT PROBLEMS AND FUTURE ASPECTS
• SIGNIFICANT WAYS TO SPREAD PLANT VIRUS DISEASES IN AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEMS: IS AGROTERRORISM POSSIBLE?
• SOIL-BORNE VIRUSES OF CROP PLANTS—POTENTIAL AGENTS FOR BIOTERRORIST ATTACKS?
• GENOMIC APPROACHES IN VIRUS DIAGNOSTICS A PERSONAL ASSESSMENT OF REALITIES WHEN FACED WITH VIRUSES IN A PLANT BIOSECURITY CONTEXT
• MOLECULAR METHODS FOR DETECTION AND QUANTITATION OF VIRUS IN APHIDS
• THE USE OF MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES IN PLANT PROTECTION AND FOR STUDYING VIRUS-INDUCED PATHOGENIC PROCESSES
• IDENTIFICATION OF PLANT HOST FACTORS INTERACTING WITH VIRUSES: NOVEL TARGETS FOR VIRUS CONTROL
• CURRENT VIEWS ON HOST COMPONENTS INVOLVED IN PLANT VIRUS INTERCELLULAR TRAFFICKING
• ABIOTIC ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS: EFFECTS ON EPIDEMIOLOGY OF PLANT VIRUS INFECTIONS
• SOMACLONAL VARIATION AS A SOURCE OF TOMATO SPOTTED WILT VIRUS-RESISTANCE IN PLANTS.