Encyclopedia of Plant Viruses and Viroids

Dr. K. Subramanya Sastry is currently retired and has last worked as Principal Scientist (ICAR), National Research Centre for Sorghum, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad from 1991 to 1998. His areas of interest are teaching and research in plant Virology, pathology, Microbiology. He has total 27 years of extension experience in Indian council of Agricultural Research and 5 years of teaching experience in Department of Botany, S.V. University, Tirupati. He has published total of 5 books and 83 research papers. Published three books on plant virology from Springer during 2012-14. Dr. Bikash Mandal is currently working as Principal Scientist in Advanced Center for Plant Virology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi.  His research and teaching area is Plant Virology. He has total 153 publications that includes 2 books, 8 book chapters, 72 research papers, 5 popular technical articles, 65 conference abstracts. He is the editor-in-Chief of Journal ‘VirusDisease’ (Springer) and VirusResearch news (Newsletter). Dr. John Hammond is currently working as Research Plant Pathologist, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Floral and Nursery Plants Research Unit, Beltsville. His major areas of research are viruses affecting ornamental crops, with emphasis on potyvirus, potexvirus and carlavirus detection, differentiation, and methods of introducing resistance, use of transgenic plants to examine virus resistance and infectious viral clones to determine factors affecting host range, symptom induction, and systemic movement, and development of microarrays for plant virus detection and identification. Dr. Simon W. Scott has recently retired from Clemson University as a Professor Emeritus in Plant Pathology. His major areas of research were viruses and virus-like agents affecting woody deciduous species with an emphasis on those viruses that affect the dominant fruit crop in SouthCarolina (peaches).  He has established a program to index large blocks of peach trees in the southeastern USA prior to propagation as part of the USDA/APHIS National Clean Plant Network. In addition he has produced extensive sequence data for a number of Ilarviruses allowing long-standing taxonomic anomalies to be corrected. Dr. Robert William Briddon has worked as Principle Investigator in Agricultural Biotechnology Division, National Institute of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (funded by United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) through the International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA, Islamabad Office). His research area is in study of vector transmission of plant infecting viruses.  Particularly the interactions involved between virus and insect vector of circulatively and propagatively transmitted viruses and the evolution thereof. He has total 135 publications in ISI Web of knowledge. He is also a member of British Society for Plant Pathology, European Whitefly Study Network and International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses.

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Abelia.- Allamanda cathartica.- Arabidopsis thaliana - Axonopus compressus.- Bambus.- Begonia.- Blainvillea rhomoboidea.- Buxus sempervirens.- Cajanus cajan.- Chamaescilla corymbosa.- Clarkia amoena.- Cucumis anguria.- Dactylis glomerata.- Dianthus amurensis.- Dracaena.- Duranta.- Ecballium elaterium.- Elettaria Cardamomum.- Eragrostis.- Exacum.- Fagus sylvatica.- Ficus carica.- Forsythia.- Fuchsia.- Gaillardia.- Gladiolus.- Gompholobium preissii.- Guizotia abyssinica.- Habenaria radiata.- Hibbertia.- Holcus lanatus.- Humulus japonicus.- Iberis semperflorens.- Ilex crenata.- Ipomoea batatas .- Ixora.- Jacquemontia.- Jasminum.- Jatropha .- Juglans regia.- Kalanchoe blossfeldiana.- Kalimeris indica.- Kennedia.- Kohleria.- Lablab purpureus.- Liatris spicata.- Lobelia.- Ludwigia.- Maclura pomifera.- Mentha.- Molinia coerulea.- Musa.- Nandina domestica.- Nerine.- Nicotiana tabacum .- Nothoscordum.- Ocimum.- Olea europaea .-  Opuntia.- Oxalis.- Pachycladon.- Pelargonium.- Polygonum.- Pulmonaria.- Quercus marilandica.- Ranunculus asiaticus.- Ribes.- Robinia pseudoacacia.- Rubus .- Saccharum officinarum.- Sida.- Solanum lycopersicum.- Sutera cordata.- Tagetes.- Tecoma capensis.- Torenia.- Tulipa.- Ullucus tuberosus.- Unxia kubitzkii .- Urochloa Urtica.- Vaccinium angustifolium.- Verbena.- Vitis vinifera.- Voandzeia subterranea.- Wahlenbergia marginata.- Weigela florida.- Wissadula.- Wisteria.- Xanthium occidentale.- Xerochrysum bracteatum.- Yucca.- Zamia furfuracea.- Zea mays.- Zinnia.