Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus Disease: Management, Molecular Biology, Breeding for Resistance [Hardcover]

This book will awaken the interest of breeders, phytopathologists, environmentalists, extension services, plant virologists, entomologists and molecular biologists. It deals both with the epidemiological aspects of the disease and with integrated pest management in the field. It discusses the efforts aimed at breeding tomato plants resistant to the virus (using classical breeding, marker-assisted breeding and genetic engineering). It summarizes the techniques used for diagnosis, eradication and certification and emphasizes the problems inherent to the control of the virus insect vector, the use of pesticides and the resistance acquired by the insects, the appearance of new whitefly biotypes with previously unknown characteristics, and the complex relations between virus, vector and plant host.

Woldwide Expansion of TYLCV.- Appearance and Expansion of TYLCV: a Historical Point of View.- An insular environment before and after TYLCV introduction.- The Bemisia Tabaci Complex: Genetic and Phenotypic Variation and Relevance to TYLCV-Vector Interactions.- Survival of Whiteflies during Long-Distance Transportation of Agricultural Products and Plants.- The TYLCV Genome.- The Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus Genome and Function of its Proteins.- Molecular Biodiversity, Taxonomy, and Nomenclature of Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl-like Viruses.- Recombination in the TYLCV Complex: a Mechanism to Increase Genetic Diversity. Implications for Plant Resistance Development.- Virus-Vector-Plant Interactions.- Replication of Geminiviruses and the use of Rolling Circle Amplification for their Diagnosis.- Interactions of Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus with its Whitefly Vector.- Localization of Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus in its Whitefly Vector Bemisia Tabaci.- Movement and localization of Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Viruses in the Infected Plant.- Identification of Plant Genes Involved in TYLCV Replication.- Biotic and Abiotic Stress Responses in Tomato Breeding Lines Resistant anl£©