Fundamentals of Viroid Biology provides a comprehensive introduction to emerging research on viroids and their biology. The book is organized into three parts, with sections that discuss historical perspectives as well as information on classifications, structure, life cycle and replication and viroid movement. The book goes on to discuss viroid diseases and their geographic distributions across Asia, Europe, Africa, Australia, North and South America. Viroid pathogenesis and viroid-host interaction rounds out the coverage which includes viroid associated disease symptoms and viroid regions associated and viroid-host protein and translations. Detection and disease control strategies are also covered.
Contributed by an international group of renown contributors in viroid research, this book is a useful introductory reference to advanced undergraduates and graduate and postgraduate students. It is also ideal for early career researchers and scientists engaged in the study of viroid biology, virology, plant virology and microbiology.
1. Introduction - p. xxi 2. Section A: Introduction - p. xxii 3. Chapter 1. Milestones in viroid research - p. 3 4. Chapter 2. Viroid taxonomy - p. 38 5. Chapter 3. Structure of viroids - p. 45 6. Chapter 4. Replication and movement of viroids in host plants - p. 63 7. Section B: Prospecting for viroid - p. 81 8. Chapter 5. Viroids diseases and its distribution in Asia - p. 88 9. Chapter 6. Viroid-associated plant diseases in Europe - p. 113 10. Chapter 7. Naturally occurring viroid diseases of economically important plants in Africa - p. 145 11. Chapter 8. Finding the coconut cadang-cadang and tinangaja viroids, naturally occurring pathogens of tropical monocotyledons of Oceania - p. 151 12. Chapter 9. Viroids and their distribution in North America - p. 171 13. Chapter 10. Viroid-associated plant diseases in South America - p. 189 14. Section C: Viroid pathogenesis and viroid-host interaction - p. 200 15. Chapter 11. Viroid pathogenicity - p. 203 16. Chapter 12. Viroids and protein translation - p. 225 17. Chapter 13. Viroid infection and host epigenetic alterations - p. 239 18. Chapter 14. Transcriptomic analyses provide insights into plant-viroid interactions - p. 255 19. Chapter 15. Viroid-induced RNA silencing and its secondary effect on the host transcriptome - p. 275 20. Chapter 16. Detection of viroids - p. 297 21. Chapter 17. Viroid disease control and strategies - p. 323 22. Chapter 18. Policies, regulations, and production of viroid-free propagative plant materials for sustainable agriculture - p. 337 23. Chapter 19. Bioinformatic approaches for the identification and discovery of viroid-like genomes - p. 363 24. Chapter 20. Contributions of viroid research to methods for RNA purification, diagnostics, and secondary structure prediction - p. 373 25. Chapter 21. Future perspectives in viroid research - p. 397 26. Index - p. 409
Fundamentals of Viroid Biology provides a comprehensive introduction to emerging research on viroids and their biology. The book is organized into three parts, with sections that discuss historical perspectives as well as information on classifications, structure, life cycle and replication and viroid movement. The book goes on to discuss viroid diseases and their geographic distributions across Asia, Europe, Africa, Australia, North and South America. Viroid pathogenesis and viroid-host interaction rounds out the coverage which includes viroid associated disease symptoms and viroid regions associated and viroid-host protein and translations. Detection and disease control strategies are also covered.
Contributed by an international group of renown contributors in viroid research, this book is a useful introductory reference to advanced undergraduates and graduate and postgraduate students. It is also ideal for early career researchers and scientists engaged in the study of viroid biology, virology, plant virology and microbiology.
1. Introduction - p. xxi 2. Section A: Introduction - p. xxii 3. Chapter 1. Milestones in viroid research - p. 3 4. Chapter 2. Viroid taxonomy - p. 38 5. Chapter 3. Structure of viroids - p. 45 6. Chapter 4. Replication and movement of viroids in host plants - p. 63 7. Section B: Prospecting for viroid - p. 81 8. Chapter 5. Viroids diseases and its distribution in Asia - p. 88 9. Chapter 6. Viroid-associated plant diseases in Europe - p. 113 10. Chapter 7. Naturally occurring viroid diseases of economically important plants in Africa - p. 145 11. Chapter 8. Finding the coconut cadang-cadang and tinangaja viroids, naturally occurring pathogens of tropical monocotyledons of Oceania - p. 151 12. Chapter 9. Viroids and their distribution in North America - p. 171 13. Chapter 10. Viroid-associated plant diseases in South America - p. 189 14. Section C: Viroid pathogenesis and viroid-host interaction - p. 200 15. Chapter 11. Viroid pathogenicity - p. 203 16. Chapter 12. Viroids and protein translation - p. 225 17. Chapter 13. Viroid infection and host epigenetic alterations - p. 239 18. Chapter 14. Transcriptomic analyses provide insights into plant-viroid interactions - p. 255 19. Chapter 15. Viroid-induced RNA silencing and its secondary effect on the host transcriptome - p. 275 20. Chapter 16. Detection of viroids - p. 297 21. Chapter 17. Viroid disease control and strategies - p. 323 22. Chapter 18. Policies, regulations, and production of viroid-free propagative plant materials for sustainable agriculture - p. 337 23. Chapter 19. Bioinformatic approaches for the identification and discovery of viroid-like genomes - p. 363 24. Chapter 20. Contributions of viroid research to methods for RNA purification, diagnostics, and secondary structure prediction - p. 373 25. Chapter 21. Future perspectives in viroid research - p. 397 26. Index - p. 409
