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Natural and engineered resistance to plant viruses /

Viruses are a huge threat to agriculture. In the past, viruses used to be controlled using conventional methods such as crop rotation and destruction of the infected plants but now there are more novel ways to control them. This volume focuses on natural and engineered virus resistance, the two majo...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Carr, John Peter, Loebenstein, G. (Gad)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam ; Boston, MA : Academic Press, 2009.
Series:Advances in virus research ; v. 75.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Mechanisms of recognition in dominant R gene mediated resistance / P. Moffett
  • 2. RNA silencing, an antiviral mechanism / T. Csorba, V. Pantaleo and J. Burgy n
  • 3. Local lesions and induced Resistance / G. Loebenstein
  • 4. Recessive resistance to plant viruses / V. Truniger and M.A. Aranda
  • 5. Towards a quarter century of pathogen-derived resistance and practical approaches to plant virus disease control / J. Gottula and M. Fuchs
  • 6. Genetically engineered virus-resistant plants in developing countries: current status and future prospects / D.V.R. Reddy, M.R. Sudarshana, M. Fuchs, N.C. Rao and G. Thottappilly.