In order to sustain productivity, growers are implementing fruit trees provide plum pox virus (PPV) resistant varieties. Unfortunately, classical breeding approaches have failed develop RNA interference (RNAi) silencing, as an alternate strategy, has been shown be efficient approach combat PPV disease (sharka). resistance based on RNAi demonstrated in natural conditions for over 10 years. Exper...

Plum pox virus (PPV), the causal agent of sharka disease, is one of the most studied plant viruses, and major advances in detection techniques, genome characterization and organization, gene expression, transmission, and the description of candidate genes involved in PPV resistance have been described. However, information concerning the plant response to PPV infection is very scarce. In this r...

Plum pox virus (PPV), a member of the genus Potyvirus, is the causal agent of Sharka, the most detrimental disease of stone-fruit trees worldwide. PPV isolates are grouped into seven distinct strains. The minor PPV-W strain was established recently for the divergent W3174 isolate found in Canada. Here, the partial or complete genomic sequences of four PPV-W isolates from Latvia have been determ...

UNLABELLED Plum pox virus (PPV) is the causal agent of Sharka, considered to be the most detrimental viral disease of Prunus spp. worldwide. So far, several PPV strains have been recognized, three of them (PPV-D, PPV-M, and PPV-Rec) having shown serious economic impact in the European area. Infectious cDNA clones of plant RNA viruses are excellent tools for functional studies of viral genomes. ...

Originally identified in Bulgaria in 1915, Plum pox virus (PPV) is the most damaging virus of stone fruit trees, including apricot, plum, peach and cherry. PPV steadily spread throughout Europe over the years since its discovery and at the turn of the century (1999-2000) it reached North America (USA and Canada). While many strategies to control the spread of PPV have been undertaken over the d...