Viral Diseases in Cereals: Genetics and Breeding for Resistance
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Breeding and Genetics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2026 | Viewed by 192
Special Issue Editors
Interests: applied wheat pathology; wheat streak mosaic (WSM); barley yellow dwarf (BYD); fusarium head blight (FHB); diseases of economic importance
Interests: wheat; triticale; cereals; molecular markers; DArTseq; genome wide association studies; genetic mapping; quantitative trait loci; steroids; RNA-seq; qPCR; fenugreek; medicinal plants
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Viruses, often vectored by arthropods and insects, are a major threat to cereal production across the globe. Their management is complicated by the interaction between the vector and the virus, as well as by the presence of multiple viruses or multiple virus strains. Infection causes both decreases in yield and quality, and control is essentially limited to complex integrated pest management approaches, including planting timing, weed control, seed treatments, and variety resistance. Variety resistance is of great importance due to the variability of the environment, which often leads to hugely impactful economic losses in epidemic years. However, limited resistance exists, making virus resistance a challenge for breeders.
This Special Issue welcomes research articles and reviews that discuss virus resistance in cereals.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Genetic identification of virus resistance, tolerance genes, or mechanisms;
- Genetic investigation of cereal viruses and their impacts on virus resistance;
- Advances in virus resistance breeding, including conventional and/or genetic engineering that focuses on either virus, vector, or both;
- Effective evalutions of the impact of multi-virus infections;
- Assessment of the durabillity of currently deployed resistance;
- Epidemiology of cereal viruses;
- Integrated pest management of cereal viruses with an emphasis on resistance.
Dr. Jessica Rupp Noller
Prof. Dr. Mirosław Tyrka
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cereal viruses
- virus resistance
- insect vectors
- integrated pest management
- genetic resistance
- virus tolerance genes
- breeding for resistance
- disease management
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