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Plant-virus interactions and the agro-ecological interface

European Journal of Plant Pathology volume 138, pages 529–547 (2014)Cite this article

Abstract

As a result of human activities, an ever-increasing portion of Earth’s natural landscapes now lie adjacent to agricultural lands. This border between wild and agricultural communities represents an agro-ecological interface, which may be populated with crop plants, weeds of crop systems, and non-crop plants that vary from exotic to native in origin. Plant viruses are important components of the agro-ecological interface because of their ubiquity, dispersal by arthropod vectors, and ability to colonize both crop and wild species. Here we provide an overview of research on plant-virus dynamics across this interface and suggest three research priorities: (1) an increased effort to identify and describe plant virus diversity and distribution in its entirety across agricultural and ecological boundaries; (2) multi-scale studies of virus transmission to develop predictive power in estimating virus propagation across landscapes; and (3) quantitative evaluation of the influence of viruses on plant fitness and populations in environmental contexts beyond crop fields. We close by emphasizing that agro-ecological interfaces are dynamic, influenced by the human-mediated redistribution of plants, vectors, and viruses around the world, climate change, and the development of new crops. Consideration of virus interactions within these environmentally complex systems promises new insight into virus, plant, and vector dynamics from molecular mechanisms to ecological consequences.

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This work was supported by 1) University of Kansas General Research Fund 2301545 (HMA), 2) National Science Foundation DDIG (DEB-1011122) and a grant from the Pennsylvania Soybean Board (KEM), 3) National Science Foundation CAREER grant IOS-0953786 (AEW), 4) CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas, Seed Degeneration Project (KAG), and 5) National Science Foundation grants IOS-0639139 & DEB-0843140, the Department of Energy Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (DOE Office of Science BER DE-FC02-07ER64494), USDA NIFA Sustainable Biofuels Program Award 2011-67009-30137 and AgBioResearch Hatch project MICL02055 (CMM). AEW and KAG also note that this is Contribution No. 13-325-J from the Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station. We thank PVEN colleagues and anonymous reviewers for helpful feedback.

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Alexander, H.M., Mauck, K.E., Whitfield, A.E. et al. Plant-virus interactions and the agro-ecological interface. Eur J Plant Pathol 138, 529–547 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10658-013-0317-1

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Keywords

  • Agro-ecological interface
  • Crop
  • Plant fitness
  • Plant virus
  • Vector
  • Wild plant