Plant Virus-Host Interaction

Prof. (Dr.) R.K. Gaur earned his Ph.D. in 2005, and is now a Professor at the Department of Biotechnology, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. His Ph.D. was on the molecular characterization of sugarcane viruses, i.e., mosaic, streak mosaic, and yellow luteovirus. He received a MASHAV fellowship of the Israeli government for his postdoctoral studies and joined The Volcani Center, Israel and Ben-Gurion University, Negev, Israel. In 2007 he received the Visiting Scientist Fellowship from the Swedish Institute, Sweden to work at Umea° University, Umea°, Sweden. He received a postdoc fellowship from ICGEB, Italy in 2008. He has made significant contributions on sugarcane viruses and has pub lished 130 national/international papers, authored 17 edited books and presented about 50 papers at national and international conferences. He has been honored as a Fellow of Linnean Society, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, a Fellow of the Society of Plant Research, a Fellow of the Society of Applied Biology (FSAB), and a Fellow of the International Society of Biotechnology (FISBT). He has received many other awards, including the Prof. B.M. Johri memorial Award, Society of Plant Research (SPR); Excellent Teaching Award by Astha Foundation, Meerut; UGC-Research Teacher Award; Young Scientist Award in 2012 in Biotechnology by the Society of Plant Research (SPR), Meerut; and Scientific and Applied Research Center Gold Medal Award in 2011 for outstanding contribution in the field of Biotechnology. He has visited several laborato ries in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Thailand, Sweden, and Italy. Currently, he is han dling many national and international grants and international collaborative projects on plant viruses and disease management Dr. S. M. Paul Khurana (new editor with this edition) is the Director of Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University, is the former Vice Chancellor of Rani Durgavati Vishwavidyalaya, and Retired Director of the Central Potato Research Institute. Dr. Khurana has a PHD (1968) and MSc (1965) from University of Gorakhpur. He spent two years doing post-doctoral work on Advanced Plant Virology at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan. He also worked at University of Minnesota, St. Paul (USA) on Immunodiagnostics (bio-technology) during a sabbatical of one year from 1987-88. He established a school of plant virology at CPRI, Shimla and has trained very large number of workers and students from the country and abroad. Dr. Khurana has published over 130 original research papers in journals of repute/high impact and he has also authored more than 75 reviews/book chapters. His research career achievements include the standardization and use of enzyme linked immuno sorbent assay (ELISA) and immuno sorbent electron microscopy (ISEM) for detection of potato viruses, development of simple techniques for screening of resistance to potato viruses, apart from pioneering work in detection of plant diseases; associated with selection/release of eight potato varieties including the first ever two processing varieties in India. Besides his extensive management experience, he has guided ten PhD students, written many monographs/bulletins and authored/edited eight books/conference proceedings. http://www.amity.edu/aims/profiles/smp_khurana.pdf Dr. Sharma’s research focuses on Agriculture Biotechnology, specifically on the characterization of genes and SSRs for abiotic stresses (drought and heat) and understating the role of epigenetics, Gene silencing and small RNAs in for wheat improvement. He has been associated with several networking projects funded as Agri-Bioinformatics Promotion Program, ACIAR-DST, and DBT-BBSRC, ICAR Networking projects on AMMAS, Cabin and AMAAS schemes etc. He has published 90 peer reviewed papers, editor of six books published in CRC, Elsevier and Academic Press, and 20 book chapters. Dr Sharma has been associated with a recently released bread wheat variety DBW71 and three trait specific genetic and has been awarded with ICAR-Lal Bahadur Shastri Outstanding Young Scientist Award, NAAS- Young Scientist 2007 and ISCA- Pran Vohra Awards. Dr Sharma is Chief Editor of Journal of Cereal Research and editorial of several journals.

Section A Plant virus-host interaction

1. Host-encoded miRNAs in plant-virus interactions—What’s new

Zhimin Yin

2. Plant nonhost resistance against viruses: Current status and future prospects

Xiaofei Cheng, Yameng Luan, and Xiaoyun Wu

3. Viral movement-cellular protein interaction

Neelam Yadav, Dinesh Kumar Yadav, Sarika Yadav, and S M Paul Khurana

4. Virus latency: Heterogeneity of host-virus interaction in shaping the virosphere

Gilbert Nchongboh Chofong, Janos Minarovits, and Katja R. Richert-Poggeler

5. Functional biology of potato-virus interactions

A. Jeevalatha, S.K. Chakrabarti, and S M Paul Khurana

6. Virus-host interactome of Potyviridae

Elangovan Sangeetha and Tennyson Jebasingh

7. Geminiviruses and their interaction with host proteins

Imran Amin, Nasim Ahmed, Hira Kamal, and Shahid Mansoor

8. Factors controlling the fate of tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) in its vector, the whitefly vector Bemisia tabaci

Henryk Czosnek, Rena Gorovits, and Murad Ghanim

9. The interaction between begomoviruses and host proteins: Who determines the pathogenicity of begomoviruses

Megha Mishra, Filza Fatma, Shamresh Anand, Dinesh Kumar Singh, Pradeep Sharma, R.K. Gaur, andRakesh Kumar Verma

10. Multifunctional role of 2b protein in pathogenesis of the viruses under the family Bromoviridae

Daliyamol, Anirban Roy, Sunil Mukherjee, Kappei Kobayashi, and Bikash Mandal

Section B Plant virus evolution and diversity

11. Evolution and diversity of plant RNA viruses

Reshu Chauhan, Surabhi Awasthi, and Raghvendra Pratap Narayan

12. Plant virus: Diversity and ecology

S.U. Mohammed Riyaz, D. Michael Immanuel Jesse, and K. Kathiravan

Section C Plant virus management

13. Molecular biology of antiviral arms race between plants and viruses

Devendran Ragunathan, Ved Prakash, and R. Vinoth Kumar

14. Control of plant pathogenic viruses through interference with insect transmission

Ornela Chase, Inmaculada Ferriol, and Juan Jose Lopez-Moya

15. Small RNA-mediated begomoviral resistance in plants: Micro in size but mega in function

Mirza S. Baig and Jawaid A. Khan

16. Managing chili leaf curl disease through RNAi based strategies

Anurag Kumar Sahu and Neeti Sanan Mishra

17. CRISPR/Cas9: A magic bullet to deal with plant viruses

Garima Singroha, Om Prakash Gupta, R.K. Gaur, and Pradeep Sharma

18. Evaluation of the reaction of cereal cultivars to viruses as a preliminary step in plant health

management

Antoniy Stoev

19. Ecological methods to control viral damages in tomatoes

Nikolay Petrov, Mariya Stoyanova, and R.K. Gaur

20. Overcoming limitations of resistance breeding in Carica papaya L. against papaya ringspot virus—Recent approaches

Sunil K. Sharma and Savarni Tripathi

21. Diversity analysis of begomoviruses infecting papaya and its mechanisms of resistance

Ritesh Mishra, Priyanka Varun, Aradhana Lucky Hans, and Sangeeta Saxena

22. Plant viruses as an engineered nanovehicle (PVENVs)

Avinash Marwal and R.K. Gaur