Fusarium wilt has long threatened the global banana industry. Because most edible banana cultivars are sterile triploids, conventional breeding is difficult and often fails to deliver new cultivars acceptable to farmers and consumers. Throu...

Viruses cause great loss on crops. Identification of key gene(s) involved in antiviral immunity will provide insights for designing effective antiviral strategies on crops. Salicylic acid (SA)-signaling immunity and RNAi are two independent...

Nanoviridae is a family of plant viruses (nanovirids) whose members have small isometric virions and multipartite, circular, single-stranded (css) DNA genomes. Each of the six (genus Babuvirus) or eight (genus Nanovirus) genomic DNAs is 0.9...

Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is an important economic crop worldwide. However, tomato production is jeopardized by the devastating tomato yellow leaf curl disease caused by whitefly-transmitted begomoviruses (WTBs). To combat this disease,...