Current and Emerging Virus Diseases in Wheat
A special issue of Viruses (ISSN 1999-4915). This special issue belongs to the section "Viruses of Plants, Fungi and Protozoa".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2024 | Viewed by 821
Special Issue Editors
Interests: molecular biology of wheat virus diseases
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Wheat plants infected with viruses may produce fewer stems and heads and have fewer kernels. So, viral diseases seriously threaten the global sustainable production of wheat, which is one of the most important crops in the world. More than 10 different viruses have been documented as natural hosts of wheat, including barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV), soilborne wheat mosaic virus (SBWMV), wheat streak mosaic virus (WSMV), wheat spindle streak mosaic virus (WSSMV), wheat yellow mosaic virus (WYMV), and Chinese wheat mosaic virus (CWMV). Resistant cultivars are the most cost-effective and environmentally friendly approach and are a prerequisite for any sustainable wheat production system. A successful infection by a plant virus results from the complex interplay between the host plant and the invading virus. Host factors are implicated in all the major steps of the infection process. Understanding the interaction between wheat plants and viruses can provide a theoretical basis for the molecular breeding of wheat disease resistance.
For this Special Issue of Viruses, titled “Current and Emerging Virus Diseases in Wheat”, we invite state-of-the-art virology research focusing on wheat viral diseases.
Prof. Dr. Jian Yang
Dr. Peng Liu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- wheat
- viral infection
- host response
- symptoms
- viral pathogenesis
- host factors
- antiviral immunity
- crop yield
